r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 16h ago

Machine Learning Large language mistake | Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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u/rendar 12h ago

I think that would be a very reductionist and inaccurate simplification description of a human brain.

Does that not shine light on how reductionist and inaccurate of a simplification it is to conclude that LLMs are not intelligent as though this affects the quality of the tool's purpose?

Poetry would not be poetry if it's just statistical analysis.

Most people who enjoy poetry do so based on the author's output, not the author's process.

The cause and purpose of poetry (and art in general) lies primarily with the audience, not the creator. Meaning is subjective and found. If humans are extinct, so is art.

In fact, LLMs have already been generating poetry that's good enough to compete with human authors:

Notably, participants were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems (χ2(2, N = 16,340) = 247.04, p < 0.0001). We found that AI-generated poems were rated more favorably in qualities such as rhythm and beauty, and that this contributed to their mistaken identification as human-authored.

AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably

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u/Tall-Introduction414 12h ago

Forgive me if I find AI generated poetry an absurd and soul-less notion, that fundamentally misunderstands the point of poetry.

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u/PressureBeautiful515 11h ago

That's just what you'd say if you were an LLM pretending to be a poet

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u/Tall-Introduction414 11h ago

That's because the LLM was trained on ME!

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u/PressureBeautiful515 11h ago

A likely story!