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This comment thread was started with discussions of AI doing a bad job at a task (communication). Doesn't the Chinese Room posit an AI good at the task of comm
by staticman2 1mo ago
This comment thread was started with discussions of AI doing a bad job at a task (communication).
Doesn't the Chinese Room posit an AI good at the task of communication?
- rcxdude 1mo agoThe Chinese Room mainly just posits a room that passes the Turing Test, which LLMs do pretty well outside of outright adversarial situations.
- codethief 1mo agoDo they? https://longbets.org/1/ https://longbets.org/1/ has yet to be settled. Either way, I doubt an LLM could fool anyone here who who knows how LLMs work into thinking it is human, at least not for an extended period of time (think about context length/compression, prompt injections, …).
- idiotsecant 1mo agoYou'll notice those goalposts are substantially stretched from the original test.
- codethief 1mo agoHow so?
- jay_kyburz 1mo agoAIs are better communicators that most of people I have worked with in my life. They are infinitely patient, don't mind going into more detail if I ask, not too bad at summary, have no ego and don't boast. They are also not too afraid of hurting my feelings, they will tell me my code sux if it does. I'd don't care if they fit a definition intelligent, they are good colleagues. They have strengths and weaknesses sure, but so do people.
- tripzilch 1mo ago> have no ego and don't boast Yes they do, and they famously do it quite a lot. > they will tell me my code sux if it does If they knew when code sux, someone should write an agentic loop around that.