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And I necessarily agree with Dale's point: the "intelligent yes or no" debate is really pointless. Perhaps it's a waste of time. The... -
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No. Furthermore, you touch on an important point here: the difference between a mistake and a hallucination is still being defined. Both... -
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I'll mention a problem I see with the term "intelligence." It's just a word, a concept we use to refer to a very diverse set of... -
russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.I'm not sure, but I behave as if it's my choice/free-will because surrendering to fate guarantees that I'm not in control. I think I... -
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One could make a similar argument about humans--our brains are just physical systems running according to physical laws, after all. No... -
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In a very, very restricted domain, one can argue this, yes. I actually have no problem with the general idea that all "intelligence"... -
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See the bolded additions I made above to your claims. They make a huge difference. The claim in the hype is AGI--artificial general... -
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You're missing the point. What I was describing was not "calling bullshit" based on reading a book report written from Cliff's Notes... -
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Yes, we do. That simply is not the case. All of those things are currently being done and hallucinations not only persist, there is some... -
russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.This isn't exactly true, nor do I think it's applicable to LLMs/AI. Typical engineering systems are supposed to be deterministic. We... -
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If "AGI" in the form of LLMs is a threat, I don't think it's because it understands anything. I think it's because there will be humans... -
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Sure they are: they're computer programs. A computer program is a set of specific instructions on how to process information. But of... -
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In the sense that it produces arrangements of words that are not in its training data, sure. But the only information it has as input... -
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As I said before, if you have references to peer-reviewed literature on the topic, you are welcome to start a new thread in the... -
russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.That's a hard sell to the family of a guy who got decapitated when his self-driving car drove under a truck it thought was a cloud.