• Nacarbac [any]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    If it cannot be used for something it wasn’t intended, then it isn’t intelligence. And since language processing is both what it is made from and intended for, this shows that there is no emergent intelligent understanding of its actual speciality function, it’s just a highly refined autocomplete with some bolted-on extras.

    Not that more research couldn’t necessarily find that mysterious theoretical threshold, but the focus on public-facing implementations and mass application is inefficient to the point of worthlessness for legitimate improvement. Good for killing people and disrupting things though.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 hours ago

      If it cannot be used for something it wasn’t intended, then it isn’t intelligence.

      no shit. death to ad men. but LLMs aren’t for most of these stunts. that’s part of the problem but it’s like saying my bike is bad at climbing trees. at least the bike isn’t being advertised for arbory

      • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        8 hours ago

        But what is it for? Other than be a bottomless pit for resources.

        It does seem cultish to present the thinking machine but when it is presented with easily verifiable tasks it regularly completely shits the bed but we are supposed to blindly trust it with more complicated matters that aren’t easily verified.