Veraticus@lib.lgbt to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoToday's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machinesquandyfactory.commessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down10
arrow-up183arrow-down1external-linkToday's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machinesquandyfactory.comVeraticus@lib.lgbt to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squareSlotos@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s your job to prove your assertion that we know enough about cognition to make reasonable comparisons.
minus-squareVeraticus@lib.lgbtOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoMay as well ask me to prove that we know enough about calculators to say they won’t develop sentience while I’m at it.
minus-squareCommunist@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoExcept calculators aren’t models capable of understanding language that appear to become more and more capable as they grow. It’s nothing like that.
It’s your job to prove your assertion that we know enough about cognition to make reasonable comparisons.
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.
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.