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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:14:43 JST Eugen Rochko

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   It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.

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     Merijn 👨‍💻:mastodon: (mrbellek@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:17:46 JST Merijn 👨‍💻:mastodon:

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     @Gargron agreed. It's just LLMs, the professional nonsense generators

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     Sibrosan (sibrosan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:28:05 JST Sibrosan

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     @Gargron

     Maybe it should be consistently written as "AI" instead of as AI.

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     Still Andy Really (squirlykat@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:35:00 JST Still Andy Really

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     @Gargron and sadly nobody will become more intelligent by using it

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     Dmitry Borodaenko (angdraug@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:39:21 JST Dmitry Borodaenko

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     @Gargron This false sense of skill or fitness for purposs comes from its incomprehensibility. Not because it's complex, although it is that, too. More because it is not designed to be comprehended. Only to be consumed.

     The danger of AI is not in that it's not intelligent, it is in that it's unintelligible.

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     Thomas Ricouard (dimillian@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:41:23 JST Thomas Ricouard

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     @Gargron Then we can agree that at this stage AI safety is another trick of marketing.

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     Ilgaz Öcal (ilgaz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 16:44:53 JST Ilgaz Öcal

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     @Gargron As usual, rms is telling the truth and nobody listens ;-)

     "I can't foretell the future, but it is important to realize that ChatGPT is not artificial intelligence. It has no intelligence; it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything. It plays games with words to make plausible-sounding English text, but any statements made in it are liable to be false. It can't avoid that because it doesn't know what the words _mean_."

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     Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦 (kegill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:04:01 JST Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦

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     • Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

     @Gargron
     I have been calling it an algorithmic tool. I like @emilymbender suggestion to reference it as automation.

     #AI

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     Healthcarer (healthcarer@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:16:32 JST Healthcarer

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     @Gargron Whatever intelligence is. Advanced statistics?

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     Duncan Stephen (duncanstephen@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:23:01 JST Duncan Stephen

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     @Gargron The people using the phrase "AI" to describe their weak products are the same people who used the word "algorithm" for everything ten years ago.

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     MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:49:36 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @Gargron It's a hybrid of Symbolic AI and Neural Networks, which is where this was always going. This current weak adaptation is already destroying egos left right and centre, and it's going to improve. More feedback. Deeper abstraction. Inference.

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     Zoe Hendrickse (huffles@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:12:44 JST Zoe Hendrickse

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     @Gargron yeah. The true test for AI I believe is when they’re able to self learn and improve. So recessions of generations without human input can result in them being “better”.
     So far all the “AI” systems being pushed are known to become worse if fed their own output.

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     VoquiLeibbrandt pas un pseudo (voquileibbrandt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:13:02 JST VoquiLeibbrandt pas un pseudo

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     @Gargron By now I dream of AI under the influence it may make it more human.. though I am not under influence by myself :)

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     Helles Sachsen (helles_sachsen@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:14:23 JST Helles Sachsen

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     @Gargron
     There is no common accepted definition of intelligence with which you can prove that a human around you is really intelligent and not just acting like?

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     Sumukha S (halfbloodprice@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:16:35 JST Sumukha S

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     @Gargron True. There is no original intelligence but data processed and delivered as information with a really good packaging.

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     Darren Moffat (darrenmoffat@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:27:00 JST Darren Moffat

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     @Gargron I prefer expanding AI as Adaptive Inference

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     gmsizemore (gmsizemore@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 19:47:36 JST gmsizemore

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     @Gargron And let me guess...your definition of "intelligence" specifically excludes what people are calling AI. But here's the thing...there is nothing called "intelligence." Find out what the independent-variables are that are relevant to the behavior we _call_ "intelligent" - even in nonhumans. And, actually, after the era of GOFAI ended, they did...sort of. AI people have ignored the natural science of behavior and it has hurt their efforts for AGI. Think "conditioning," people. Sheesh!

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     pc_roto (la_plaga@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 19:49:27 JST pc_roto

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     @Gargron i have been long thinking about this. Isn't our own brain electric pulses? Web are social animals, we learn imitating others, so, what is intelligence? Not trolling, i'd like to read you

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     crazy janey (hazydavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 20:12:47 JST crazy janey

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     @Gargron
     true
     +an unlimited computing capacity

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     Felix (felixcorreia@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 20:13:31 JST Felix

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     @Gargron

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     Chrisi79 (based79@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 21:12:18 JST Chrisi79

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     @Gargron Those systems behave intelligently even if they are not. They understand complex questions and complex code for example. Even if it is all statistics at end, the results are breathtaking. #AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI

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     glelkaitis (glelkaitis@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 21:20:41 JST glelkaitis

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     @Gargron "AI" is a testament to how we give the different meaning to the word as we see fit or fancy. Which "AI" is incapable of.

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     airjunglist (airjunglist@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 21:26:30 JST airjunglist

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     @Gargron this.

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     rticks (rticks@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 21:49:38 JST rticks

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     @Gargron

     I call them LLMs

     I call general intelligences to be Digital Intelligence because when eventually real they wont be Artificial

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     SmokeCrack.lol (smokecrackerc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 22:30:16 JST SmokeCrack.lol

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     @Gargron It's tempting to call it AI, but I'd rather refer to it as 'sophisticated pattern recognition software.' Ultimately it's just a fancy algorithm, or a glorified data matcher.

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     Whyfullyblind (elizaalex@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 22:37:38 JST Whyfullyblind

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     @Gargron what i dont get is the implicit bias they build in the machine decision making that they don’t even see. Its bizarre and dangerous. Hubris.

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     Preslav Rachev (preslavrachev@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 22:54:51 JST Preslav Rachev

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     @Gargron wrote about that a few months ago: https://preslav.me/2023/05/22/i-believe-in-machine-learning-dont-believe-in-artificial-intelligence/

     The best we get to call it is Augmented (Human) Intelligence. Like those glasses that overlay things in front of your eyes, current AI is mostly a tool that does stuff for you, and it just happens to do it better than tools before it. New types of problems bring in new tools to solve them. But it’s just brute-forcing an answer in the end, I agree.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:21:34 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Gargron come now! This overstates our current knowledge of the nature of intelligence. LLMs are adaptive, they have memory, they use language to communicate, and they integrate disparate experiences to solve problems. They have many of the hallmarks of what we call intelligence. They have more such characteristics than, say, dolphins or chimps. Us knowing how they work is not a disqualifier for them being intelligent.

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     Kevin Jardine (kevinjardine@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:40:02 JST Kevin Jardine

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     @Gargron LLMs are more sophisticated versions of the old ELIZA chatbot. At least ELIZA's creator Joseph Weizenbaum did not attempt to overhype what it was.

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:46:41 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Gargron I liked the article "Sparks of AGI" which does systematic comparisons of intelligence metrics on GPT-4. There are also plenty of critiques worth reading.

     https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

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     Javier Paredes (javier_paredes@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:47:45 JST Javier Paredes

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     @Gargron
     Large Language Models are to intelligence what elevators are to teleportation.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:59:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Kevin Marks

     @KevinMarks @Gargron can you summarize?

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     Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:59:30 JST Kevin Marks

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron there are very specific critiques of that article. https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/gn7Lycfbm684NEi7xok2gf

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:06:26 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Kevin Marks

     @KevinMarks @Gargron yeah, I'm not going to do that. Send me some written critiques though!

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     Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:06:27 JST Kevin Marks

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron that paper cites a definition of intelligence by racist eugenicists, and doesn't have any actual controls, only vibes. It is worth watching / listening, as is the linked radiolab series on intelligence measuring

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:07:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jalcine @KevinMarks @Gargron which citations?

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     ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:07:39 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

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     • Kevin Marks
     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @KevinMarks @Gargron check the citations of that paper would be the most immediate one

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     Marcus (gerowen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:10:41 JST Marcus

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     @Gargron I've been telling people this forever and they don't want to hear it. They're so enamored with the science fiction of "AI" that they don't understand companies will lie for money.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:10:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jalcine @KevinMarks @Gargron what do they say?

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     ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:10:55 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

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     • Kevin Marks
     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @KevinMarks @Gargron to the paper you've referenced!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:19:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jalcine @KevinMarks @Gargron I see a lot of discussion of the Gottfredson definition of intelligence, which was removed. I've only read parts of the most recent version, which says "there's no generally agreed definition of intelligence." Which I think is still true, although I am not an expert in this field.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:22:02 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Kevin Marks

     @KevinMarks @Gargron I deleted my recommendation of this paper.

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     Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:22:03 JST Kevin Marks

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f

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     King of Red Lions (kingofredlions@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:22:08 JST King of Red Lions

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     @Gargron
     Are you saying the "revolutionary artificial intelligence technology" in this toothbrush is just marketing? That there isn't an Nvidia GPU inside analyzing my teeth in realtime? https://oralb.com/en-us/products/electric-toothbrushes/genius-x-limited-electronic-toothbrush-white/

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     Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:29:38 JST Matt Hodges

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     @evan @Gargron Not too long ago — in fact, roughly a year or two ago — "Artificial Intelligence" was a term used to describe computer systems which could perform tasks that historically required human cognition. Few people were offended that Chess or Go-playing systems were considered "AI" and "real intelligence" was never a requirement. But, as we see time and time again, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

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     Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:30:42 JST Matt Hodges

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron I think it's historically incorrect to say that, "technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing". Yes, marketing is capitalizing on it! But the nomenclature matches my CS education from the late 2000s and it matches 70 years of how "AI" is used in research and literature. The recent obsession with asserting "theory of mind" or "intentions" or "originality" or "real intelligence" seems, well, recent.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:30:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matt Hodges

     @MattHodges @Gargron I think there are a lot of things GPT4 is bad at. It's not very good at simple arithmetic. It is bad at geographical information -- what places are near others, parts of each other. It also does a bad job at string manipulation -- words that start with a particular letter, or words that are anagrams of other words. I don't think you have to resort to mysticism to say why it is not yet human-equivalent. But that doesn't mean it's not intelligent.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:31:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Bike Shed

     @bikeshed I don't think that there's a ranking of intelligence on a single scale. But LLMs are better at, say, language use than chimps are.

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     Bike Shed (bikeshed@503junk.house)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:31:26 JST Bike Shed

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan ranking LLMs over dolphins or chimps for "intelligence" is pure anthropocentrism.

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     Ampelios (pelielios@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:56:04 JST Ampelios

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     @Gargron Yes. Anyone who has ever complained about autocorrect should know better than to think "AI" is anything but more of the same.

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     Joseph Szymborski :qcca: (jszym@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:58:11 JST Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron I'd have to disagree. LLMs are primarily used for two things, parsing text, and generating text.

     The parsing functions of LLMs are truly incredible, an represent (IMHO) a generational shift in tech. But the world's best regex isn't intelligence in my book, even if it parses semantically.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:14:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jszym @Gargron what does it mean to "know" something?

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     Joseph Szymborski :qcca: (jszym@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:14:38 JST Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron Ok, ok, one parting thought:

     I'll just add that having memory, being adaptive, and using language to communicate are all things that computer programmes that don't use LLMs do today.

     LLMs are (IMHO) the most convincing mimics we've ever created by many orders of magnitude. But they don't actually *know* anything.

     I can't wait for the world to see what truly *useful* things LLMs can do other than be sometimes right on logic puzzles and write bad poetry.

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     Joseph Szymborski :qcca: (jszym@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:14:39 JST Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron The generating functions of LLMs are (again, IMHO) both the most hyped and least useful function of LLMs.

     While LLMs generate text that is coherent, that can illicit emotion or thought or any number of things, we're mostly looking into a mirror. LLMs don't "integrate" knowledge, they're just really, really, really big Markov chains.

     Don't get me wrong, "intelligent" systems most certainly will use an LLM, but generating text from prompts the way we do isn't intelligence.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:23:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @fifilamoura @Gargron thanks, and that's a fair point. I'd say LLMs are better at other intelligence metrics, like language use.

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:23:25 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Hey, you may be unaware of the actual problem solving, social lives and intelligence of dolphins, they're far more adaptive to reality than an LLM is. And LLMs don't have experiences, that's projecting human sensory capabilities onto them they simply don't have since they're not embodied (experiences are far more than memories and they don't just live in narratives/texts/memories....see current research into PTSD and memory, for instance). @Gargron

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:24:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matt Hodges

     @MattHodges fair enough!

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     Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:24:28 JST Matt Hodges

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan

     Yes, and...!

     > It's not very good at simple arithmetic.

     This is a recurrent example that is starting to illustrate the difference between bare LLMs and the products built on top of them. Eg, ChatGPT is a product built on top of a system. That system has a lot of components. One of those components is a LLM. And another component is a Python interpreter. LLMs can write Python quite well, and Python can do math quite well.

     Seems like a pretty intelligent system to me!

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     Joseph Szymborski :qcca: (jszym@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:28:11 JST Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

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     @evan @Gargron Ya, I think that's the heart of the question :)

     What I'm trying to communicate is that when I ask an LLM "what is on the inside of an orange", the programme isn't consulting some representation of the concept of "orange (fruit)". Rather, it's looking at all the likely words that would follow your prompt.

     If you get a hallucination form that prompt, we think it made an error, but really the LLM is doing it's job, just plausible words. My bar for intelligence is personally higher

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:53:54 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @bikeshed I am not! I think you should go back and reread my post with fresh eyes. I said that LLMs do better on some of the measures of intelligence than chimps and dolphins. I didn't say that they are more intelligent than those animals, nor did I say that the measures of intelligence they excel at are more important than the intelligence necessary to survive in the world.

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     Bike Shed (bikeshed@503junk.house)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:53:57 JST Bike Shed

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan but again, this is anthropocentric. You're defining language as language that is intelligible to humans and then saying that the tool designed by humans to output human language is better at human language than chimps! It's a silly game that plays into this very stratified view of what constitutes intelligence.

     I certainly think that ranking LLMs over dolphins, who we have little understanding of their communication, seems very bizarre.

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     Bike Shed (bikeshed@503junk.house)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:53:57 JST Bike Shed

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan additionally, why is language use a more defining characteristic of intelligence than tool use? Chimps, bonobos, dolphins, octopi, corvids etc all can use tools and solve complex tasks but aren't good at language (to our definition of language). Does this matter?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:55:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Joseph Szymborski :qcca:

     @jszym @Gargron the words are a representation.

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     N0rman (n0rman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 03:02:44 JST N0rman

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     @Gargron GIGO. It's all about the training.

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     Matthew M. - Mastodon SJW (mattmerk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 03:22:47 JST Matthew M. - Mastodon SJW

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     @Gargron Which is why I only refer to it as "large language models" or less often "machine learning," when it applies to VFX work in film and TV.

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     Adlangx (lightninhopkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 03:58:15 JST Adlangx

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     @Gargron Plagiarism machine works.

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     Pine (pinecone@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 04:35:12 JST Pine

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     @Gargron Oh, the irony. Aren't you just parroting Emily Bender? A chatbot could have said this. How can we know that what you say is more than just your cognitive statistics?

     1. There is intelligence in current LLM based AI. A different sort, but still intelligence. Language competence without comprehension.

     2. Most of what people say is pretty much at the level of parroting.

     3. What you say is half true, half misleading.

     Several people on this thread have mentioned this sort of idea.

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     Son of a Sailor (sonofasailor@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 04:41:07 JST Son of a Sailor

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     @Gargron I wish these bots would stop being personified. Statistical databases don't have personalities.

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     cultdev (cultdev@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 05:51:53 JST cultdev

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     @Gargron probably the single keenest and clearest articulation of this point that i’ve seen yet. no wonder you’re the mastodon guy

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 06:22:54 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Bike Shed

     @bikeshed I will revise to be clearer.

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     Bike Shed (bikeshed@503junk.house)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 06:22:55 JST Bike Shed

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan agree to disagree, but I struggle to read "They have many of the hallmarks of what we call intelligence. They have more such characteristics than, say, dolphins or chimps" in another way than a kind of ranking.

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     David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 07:37:37 JST David W. Jones

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     • Ether Diver

     @Gargron
     I always read "AI" in the news as "Artificial Idiocy." Although the terms "Augmented Idiocy" or "Amplified Idiocy" just came to mind.
     @etherdiver

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     Terci (terci@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 08:01:55 JST Terci

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     @Gargron aptly put

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     RustyBertrand (rustybertrand@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 08:23:43 JST RustyBertrand

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     @Gargron

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     arjankroonen (arjankroonen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 15:53:33 JST arjankroonen

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     @Gargron But to be fair, it is doing a better job at pretending to be intelligent than tons of humans voting nowadays… so I’m not sure I really really care ablut the broad interpretation of “I” being used.

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     Blogging Life (blogginglife@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 19:08:29 JST Blogging Life

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     @Gargron Completely agreed.

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     Paulo (pspssp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 20:17:17 JST Paulo

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     @Gargron always thought a better term would be "extreme fitting models"

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     Rafi C (glider85@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 22:48:52 JST Rafi C

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     @Gargron I just went to a major US marketing conference in Sept, every single vendor was touting the 'AI-fication' of their products. It's ridiculous because we are customers, we know that they've just rebranded the ML stuff they were already doing!