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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

It’s your job to prove your assertion that we know enough about cognition to make reasonable comparisons.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    May as well ask me to prove that we know enough about calculators to say they won't develop sentience while I'm at it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Except calculators aren't models capable of understanding language that appear to become more and more capable as they grow. It's nothing like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Isn't it, though? Take two cells and rub them together, do it a bit more, boom here we are on Lemmy.

    We wouldn't refer to our consciousness as an emergent property of algae.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, but we would refer to our consciousness as an emergent property of our brain.

    And we're trying to build artificial brains.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Sorry, I guess what I was trying to say is that it doesn't take much to get from "calculator" to a system that is Turing complete, and from there we're just a few sleeps away from LLMs, and from there...

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