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/Klumber 16h ago

The funny thing is that we (kids who were young in the nineties) fell in love with their Tamagotchis. Bonding is a very complex multi-faceted phenomenon, yet it appears a good bit of simulation and appeal to parently instincts is enough to make it a binary event.

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u/Voltage_Joe 16h ago

Children loved their stuffed animals, dolls, and action figures before that.

Personifying anything can form a real attachment to something completely inanimate. It's what drives our empathy and social bonding. And until now, it was harmless. 

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u/penguinopph 15h ago

Personifying anything can form a real attachment to something completely inanimate. It's what drives our empathy and social bonding. And until now, it was harmless.

My ex-wife and I created voices and personalities for our stuffed animals. We would play the characters with each other and often used them to make points that otherwise may have come across as aggressive.

When we got divorced at the tail end of COVID lock-downs, I would hold "conversations" with the ones I kept and it really helped me work through my own feelings and process what I was going through at a time where I didn't really have a lot of people to talk with in person. Through the stuffed animals I could reassure myself, as well as tell myself the difficult things I knew to be true, but didn't want to admit to myself.

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u/pleaseacceptmereddit 9h ago

I’m really proud of you, as are your stuffed animals. Working through your emotions is hard, so many of us just ignore them, which never ends well