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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)

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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 8 hours ago

unfortunately, no. when the concept of machine intelligence was first being explored, marvin minsky(I think)'s secretary used ELIZA, the basic fits-on-a-page. they said it was absolutely a person, that they were friends with it. he walked them through it, explained the code (which, again, fits on one page in a modern language. a couple punch cards back then, you can look at what looked at first glance like a faithful python port here). the secretary just would not believe him, INSISTED that it was a person, that it cared about them.

this was someone working around the cutting edge of the field, and being personally educated by one of those big 'great man' type scientists-and not one of the egotistical shithead ones who'd have been a garbage teacher.