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AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Remember the Turing test? Damn goal posts move faster than the ball. I’m not sure how one could fail to be impressed by the technological advancements in the last 3 years in the field

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Sort of.

    I think Turing thought, "well something that could do this would surely HAVE to be intelligent", but I seriously doubt that he would have waved the white flag for an intelligence that can convincingly mimic human communication but can't count letters in a word.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    An important variable of the Turing Test that is never spoken about is the intelligence (or gullibility) of the user.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Then define intelligence.

    You can't just say a thing is intelligent or not intelligent without coming up with a good definition. We are ugly meatbags of mostly water that are constantly driven by chemical processes. How the hell do you call that intelligent? Prove that we are intelligent, and then prove that the "algorithmic iterator", that uses weighted metrics with an eerie similarity to neurons, isn't actually intelligent.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence

    I know you’re not a fan of the dictionary, but they are the authority on words and their meanings.

    Before you get too excited about definition 3 I suggest you familiarize yourself with what it means to “compute” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compute you’ll notice repeated use of the word “determine”. LLMs are by nature “non-deterministic” or in other words “incapable of determining / incapable of making a determination”.

    A computer is deterministic

    An LLM is a probabilistic next-word-guessing machine / software as a service

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