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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dont anthropomorphise. There is quite the difference between a human and an advanced lookuptable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I absolutely agree. However, if you think the LLMs are just fancy LUTs, then I strongly disagree. Unless, of course, we are also just fancy LUTs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think we are turing computable. So I don't think we are fancy LUTs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Heretic! Burn the witch!….wait what did they say about ….!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You ever meet an ai researcher with a background in biology? I’ve discussed this stuff with one. She disagrees with Turing about machines thinking including when ai is in the picture. They process information very differently from how biology does

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is a vague non answer, although I agree it's done very differently because our process is biological and ai is not.

But as I asked elsewhere, what's the effective difference?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

You're asking how to tell the difference between a chatbot and a human being?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

so to summarize, your only contributions to this thread are to go “well uh you just don’t know how LLMs work” while providing absolutely no detail of your own, and reporting our regulars for “Civility” when they rightly called you out for being a fucking idiot who’s way out of their depth

how fucking embarrassing for you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

on the topic of which, this crossed my feed earlier

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the report queue can be comedy gold at times

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

we prefer to let the trail of "removed by mod" speak for itself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Wikipedia informs me that your diet includes squid, anchovies, mackerel, rockfish, and sardines. Yum yum!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Well... I do agree with you but human brains are basically big prediction engines that use lookup tables, experience, to navigate around life. Obviously a super simplification, and LLMs are nowhere near humans, but it is quite a step in the direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Well, I don't think humans are turing computable, so I disagree with you there. Which should have been clear from my initial post.

Fun fact, what you just said about how humans are just computers is also part of dianetics. Amazing how it happened in 2 different cults.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh my, you're such a confluence of bad takes (racist, transphobic, creepy and ignorant of the technical and biological topics you're pontificating about.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I dug into their post history and god you’re fucking right

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

@phoenixz @Soyweiser "Let's redefine what it means to be human, so we can say the LLM is human" have you bumped your head?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any foundation for that model of human sentience, apart from feels?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

inb4 "it's just, like, common sense, man"