It is evident that it has intelligence, it outputs intelligent responses usually adequate to its input, even if it’s badly phrased. What it doesn’t have is sentience, conscience, and a learning loop.
To anyone who interacts with it? Would you deny that a program automate mental labor in the same way that a sawmill automates manual labor? Isn’t that some degree of intelligence?
Now, we have very imperfect LLMs who nevertheless can be instructed not with program code, but actual natural language, and they react accordingly. Isn’t that also intelligence? Computers that understood natural language was the realm of science fiction just five years ago.
I get it that people hate LLMs, both because how idiots use them, and how corporations push them everywhere; but not recognizing the intelligence in those programs is naive at best.
This is true, depending on what you mean by smarter. They are undeniably more capable. However, the trendy, cool things is to hate on AI, rejecting all else. Sure, capitalism sucks, and the powerful rich people and companies who control AI suck. AI itself, though, can very easily result in massive benefits for humanity as a whole.
“AI” is garbage generator, that consumes our resources to output mediocre slop. Case in point is your PFP.
It’s neither “trendy” nor “cool”, just common opinion, as more and more people get to try it and see how useless it actually is, for anything beyond average (often empirically wrong) output.
Recent LLMs are very capable at doing almost all simple computing tasks. At some point in the future, we will have AI that is more generally useful than current LLMs. If and when we have truly general purpose AI, it could benefit humanity in countless ways. It could also continue to cause harm. We can’t know for sure.
At some point in the future, we will have AI that is more generally useful than current LLMs. If and when we have truly general purpose AI, it could benefit humanity in countless ways
Wow, even a personal anecdote! That’s, like, irrefutable!
(since you didn’t really understand what I’m saying, I’ll clarify - this was a Musk/Tesla reference)
Listen, next year I’m curing cancer and solving world hunger, thus making ““AI”” obsolete. Care to invest?
Until then, it’s best if we evaluate technology at its current standing. Which is garbage generator that requires way too much resources.
I’m pretty sure AI is objectively smarter today than it was 5 years ago.
Since LLMs literally can’t learn, no. They’re just increasingly tweaked to seem even more convincing.
Objectively + smarter, huh.
It is not alive and cannot really think, so I doubt it’s smarter. It likely contains a bit more knowledge and a better interconnected network for it
Whether said knowledge is of better quality than 5 years ago is up for debate though.
How can something with no intelligence be smarter?
It is evident that it has intelligence, it outputs intelligent responses usually adequate to its input, even if it’s badly phrased. What it doesn’t have is sentience, conscience, and a learning loop.
Evident to whom exactly?
To anyone who interacts with it? Would you deny that a program automate mental labor in the same way that a sawmill automates manual labor? Isn’t that some degree of intelligence?
Now, we have very imperfect LLMs who nevertheless can be instructed not with program code, but actual natural language, and they react accordingly. Isn’t that also intelligence? Computers that understood natural language was the realm of science fiction just five years ago.
I get it that people hate LLMs, both because how idiots use them, and how corporations push them everywhere; but not recognizing the intelligence in those programs is naive at best.
There’s better integration with all sorts of other sources of truth beyond the LLM training, which makes it seem smarter.
Actually it just appears smarter because people are objectively dumber than they were 5 years ago. “AI” is actually stagnate.
This is true, depending on what you mean by smarter. They are undeniably more capable. However, the trendy, cool things is to hate on AI, rejecting all else. Sure, capitalism sucks, and the powerful rich people and companies who control AI suck. AI itself, though, can very easily result in massive benefits for humanity as a whole.
“AI” is garbage generator, that consumes our resources to output mediocre slop. Case in point is your PFP.
It’s neither “trendy” nor “cool”, just common opinion, as more and more people get to try it and see how useless it actually is, for anything beyond average (often empirically wrong) output.
Recent LLMs are very capable at doing almost all simple computing tasks. At some point in the future, we will have AI that is more generally useful than current LLMs. If and when we have truly general purpose AI, it could benefit humanity in countless ways. It could also continue to cause harm. We can’t know for sure.
I know, for sure.
You truly don’t, though. You believe it. That doesn’t make it true. We do not have enough data to know what the future holds regarding AI.
– You. Just now.
Full self driving next year.
We already have it
Sure you do. In your colony on Mars.
How fucking gullible can you get, jfc.
I’ve been in vehicles with self-driving, and they perform better than the average driver in every situation I’ve encountered.
You seem like a really angry person. I’m sorry your experiences in life are so miserable.
Wow, even a personal anecdote! That’s, like, irrefutable! (since you didn’t really understand what I’m saying, I’ll clarify - this was a Musk/Tesla reference)
Listen, next year I’m curing cancer and solving world hunger, thus making ““AI”” obsolete. Care to invest?
Until then, it’s best if we evaluate technology at its current standing. Which is garbage generator that requires way too much resources.
More capable doesnt mean its smarter. A hammer can be made to be more capable but that doesn’t make it smart.
That’s not 1:1, and like I said, it depends on what you mean by smarter.