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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 22 Sep \ parent \ on: Plausibility is not truth | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine AI
Ah! I see.
In that case, I'd say whatever statistical pattern matching humans are doing feels different than LLMs. When I talk with another human, it feels like there is depth to their reasoning. Or, again, there is a thing where you can watch a human "get" something. We have a bunch of phrases to describe this. Maybe what we are doing is still statistical pattern matching, but it seems very different than LLMs.
But, if I'm honest, I'm less interested in this question of what humans are doing or even whether AI as we know it is conscious. It quickly becomes a morass of tautologies and indefinable terms.
What I am curious about is how to think about something that we know is just running a simulation of human language, but could just as easily run a simulation of a world where human language didn't know LLMs or even computers didn't exist. How do we think about this thing that will play any roll we ask it to?
I agree... I find the consciousness question to be quite pedantic. "Declare your beliefs!", I say, and let's move on! Haha
But yeah, in terms of how to think of AI's, I do think it'd be helpful if more people realized that they're glorified fill-in-the-blank / guess-the-next-word machines.
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