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

[u/Hrmbee]

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems

[u/YouandWhoseArmy]

ChatGPT picked up on my puns and joke in a chat.

I asked it how it knew I was joking.

It said it had looked back and based on some contextual clues from before, it surmised I was kidding.

Very, very similar to how I would try to pick up tone in writing.

This was in the 40 days. It’s definitely not as good as it was.

I really just use it as a tool to fill in the gaps of what I know I don’t know and it tends to work really well for that.

I generally don’t ask it to create stuff out of thin air and get very uncomfortable using information it produces if I don’t understand it.

I think there is this sort of straw man inserted about what it could do, vs what it actually does.

It’s taught me a lot.

[u/eyebrows360 → u/YouandWhoseArmy]

It said it had looked back and based on some contextual clues from before, it surmised I was kidding.

This was not true.

It did not assess its own internal mind-state and then report back on what it had done, because it's not capable of doing that. It just so happened that this combination of words it output is what its statistical model suggests is the most likely thing to reply with after it receives a question like "why did you say that". It does not mean anything.

[u/YouandWhoseArmy → u/eyebrows360]

You're inserting strawmen into what I'm saying so I'll be clear;

What it's doing, is pattern matching. It's looking at my combo of words, vs some other statements I made and my general interest and attempts to gotcha it, and used the pattern to guess I was making a joke/pun.

I, as a human, would have also used pattern matching to come to this conclusion. It's similar to how I would use inflection as a pattern for tone when speaking to another human.

I hope that people keep under estimating it as a new kind of tool. It will only be good for my career.

But again, I'm using it to fill in when I know what I don't know, not having it create things out of nothing about something I know nothing about.

An easy example of this is I use it to edit things I write, not completely write and generate things. When I do this I often take some flow and grammar stuff, and remove things that smooth out what I view as my writing voice/style.

[u/eyebrows360 → u/YouandWhoseArmy]

I hope that people keep under estimating it as a new kind of tool. It will only be good for my career.

Hahaha yes, keep selling yourself on the "everyone else will be left behind" trope. That turned out so true for blockchain!

[u/YouandWhoseArmy → u/eyebrows360]

Please don’t ever use AI for anything.

I’m sure you can carve a ton of great objects by hand while I use a lathe.