• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    No, they’re still LLM. I think the other comment is confusing the message with the substance. They’re getting better at recognizing patterns all the time but there’s still “nobody at home”, doing the thinking.

    Whenever you get output that seems insightful it was originally created by humans, and in order to tell if the pieces that were picked and rearranged by the LLM make sense you’ll need a human again.

    “Reason” implies higher thinking like self-determination, free will, choosing what to think about etc. Until that happens they’re still automata.

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      7 months ago

      They’re getting better at recognizing patterns all the time but there’s still “nobody at home”, doing the thinking.

      It’s dangerous to think like that. We can’t prove that they’re not sapient. Now they’re not very intelligent but that’s not quite the same thing.

      At the moment it’s probably moot but it’s important to realize that we can’t actually do any kind of test to determine if actual cognition is happening, so we have to assume that they are capable of intelligent thought because the alternative is dangerously lackadaisical.