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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Half of LLM users (49%) think the models they use are smarter than they are, including 26% who think their LLMs are “a lot smarter.” Another 18% think LLMs are as smart as they are. Here are some of the other attributes they see:

  • Confident: 57% say the main LLM they use seems to act in a confident way.
  • Reasoning: 39% say the main LLM they use shows the capacity to think and reason at least some of the time.
  • Sense of humor: 32% say their main LLM seems to have a sense of humor.
  • Morals: 25% say their main model acts like it makes moral judgments about right and wrong at least sometimes. Sarcasm: 17% say their prime LLM seems to respond sarcastically.
  • Sad: 11% say the main model they use seems to express sadness, while 24% say that model also expresses hope.
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I've made a similar argument and the response was, "Our brains work the same way!"

LLMs probably are as smart as people if you just pick the right people lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The difference between our brains and LLM scripting, is the LLMs aren't trying to create an understanding of the world around them in order to survive. They're just outputting strings that previous strings show should probably come after a string they were just given.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

That sure sounds like fox news connoisseurs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Allegedly park rangers in the 80s were complaining it was hard to make bear-proof garbage bins because people are sometimes stupider than the bears.