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Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] 10 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

When discussing it, I often call it "simulated intelligence", because at the end of the day that's what neural networks are.

Edit: only to non-technical people, as simulations are a different thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    In science fiction I've often seen the term VI (Virtual Intelligence) to refer to machines that look intelligent, and could probably pass a Turing test, but aren't really intelligent (normally VI coexists with actual AI, often used as interfaces, where it would be a waste, or too risky, to use a proper AI).

    LLMs look a bit like that, though they're probably too unreliable to use as an interface for anything important.

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  • [+] -10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    IMHO it's real intelligence, but not artificial. LLMs have been fed virtually everything created by the actual intelligence: humans. Like I said, all they do is execute what is effectively pattern matching (on serious steroids) to distill what humans have created into something more bite-sized.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    It's pattern matching, but it's not matching intelligently. An intelligence should be able to optimize itself to the task at hand, even before self-improvement. LLMs can't select relevant data to operate on, nor can it handle executive functions.

    LLMs are cool, and I think humans have something similar to process information with, but that's just one part of a larger system, and it's not the intelligent part.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ask an LLM how many 'r's are in the word 'strawberry' and tell me it has any actual intelligence behind its output.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    To be fair to LLMs they get the text as a series of tokens, so when you type strawberry, the see 🍓 or something. What works better as a counterexample are variations of the river crossing puzzle changed to be trivial.

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