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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It’s got intern-level intelligence

The problem is, it's not "intelligence". It's an enormous statistical based autocorrect.

AI doesn't understand math, it just knows that the next character in a string starting "2+2=" is almost unanimously "4" in all the data it's statistically analyzed. If you try to have it solve an equation that isn't commonly repeated, it can't solve it. Even when you try to train it on textbooks, it doesn't 'learn' the math, it tries to analyze the word patterns in the text of the book and attempts to replicate it. That's why it 'hallucinates', and also why it doesn't matter how much data you feed it, it won't be 'intelligent'.

It seems intelligent because we associate intelligence with language, and LLMs mimic language in an amazing way. But it's not 'thinking' the way we associate with intelligence. It's running complex math about what word should come next in a sentence based on the other sentences of that sort it's seen before.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Interns aren't that intelligent, either. But they can generate content even if they're not intelligent and that's helpful, too.

    Having the right answer is a lot less useful than looking like you have the right answer, sadly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Interns aren’t that intelligent, either. But they can generate content even if they’re not intelligent and that’s helpful, too.

    An intern has the capacity to learn, an LLM does not.

    Having the right answer is a lot less useful than looking like you have the right answer, sadly.

    Only if you care about accuracy, which is 100% the problem with LLMs.

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