Opinion | Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine
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A.I. is looking less like an all-powerful being and more like an unreliable intern.
  • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    i guess it comes down to a philosophical question

    no, it doesn’t, and it’s not a philosophical question (and neither is this a question of philosophy).

    the software simply has no cognitive capabilities.

    • EatATacoEnglish
      48·
      6 months ago

      I’m not sure I agree, but then it goes to my second question:

      What’s the effective difference?

      • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
        16·
        6 months ago

        “(…) perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, comprehension, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making (…)”

      • braxy29@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        6 months ago

        don’t know why you got downvoted, an LLM is essentially a chinese room, and whether such a room “knows” is still the question.

        • techMayhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          6 months ago

          Someone in the chinese room would not know anything about their in- or output. Sure you memorized that a certain set of symbols means your output should contain another set of symbols, but what do you actually “know” about these symbols.

          But you have no idea what it’s about. Is it a greeting? A recipe for some pasta? Instructions to build a bomb? Could be anything.

        • EatATacoEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          I’m pretty well steeped in this question, from both a technological and philosophical perspective.

          And it’s funny to see all of these posters, who are upvoting comments that expose a fundamental lack of understanding about how LLMs and ai work, acting like the book is already closed on the answer.