• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    55 minutes ago

    The current examples of AI could never be described as a general intelligence let alone Superintelligence. These LLMs are definitely just a typing monkey (that was eloquently put).

    They are literally generating text word by word with a next-word-prediction methodology.

    With some tweaking they can be made to produce mostly coherent code and apparently also equations that balance. This does not make these algorithms geniuses. A calculator can also balance an equation, so that alone is not impressive.

    The techniques LLM designers use to leverage statistical models in order to generate coherent sentences are actually rather impressive. It is legitimately quite a feat to make LLMs work as well as they do. But that does not mean that these outputs are anything like “thinking”, they’re just outputs. Data goes in, the machine churns, does some mystery math, and different data comes out.

    These systems are not worth anthropomorphizing.