Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines - Ryan McGreal
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  • Veraticus@lib.lgbtOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

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

          And we’re trying to build artificial brains.

          • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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            1 year 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…