I'm not againt LLMs. They're usefull tools, and I've been tinkering with them since 2021, and generative ML before that. I have one loaded on my desktop pretty much all the time; DeepseekV4 0731 is running, right this second.

I use them all the time. I hack at them as a hobby; I know how useful they can be.

But you're stopping just short of calling them "alive." They're not even close, not even in the same universe. They do tasks with intelligence or some variant of that, but they are not intelligent. And I'm not trying to be pedantic, that is a loaded term that implies cognition and adaptability they do not have.

They're basically the same thing as weather prediction models, but for text output. They're just a model.

And I think its very dangerous when people fall into the trap of thinking they are, fundamentally, more than that. That's the fantasy Altman and such are selling the public, to con them.

Hence, the article above ^. What's coming out of these leaders' mouths does not match what people are getting, and they can tell. And that's because the premise they're being sold, of "artificial intelligence," is a lie.

with about as much irrational hate as the people they despise, like Trump.

Thanks for outing yourself. Makes it easy to just skip the conversation and not bother trying to open up a conversation made in bad faith.

I can write a bash script in five minutes that will say it’s alive if you ask, does that make it so?

Understanding, context[0].

Computers are particularly adept at iteration, and LLMs are an application that leverages this effectively. To wit, I’ll concede LLMs are ‘AI’, where that initialisation represents Accelerated Iteration, or in management as Amplified Incompetence, but as an example of Intelligence, that remains for those who are proud of their lack of the naturally occurring variety.

[0]: to frame a larger memory pool as a ‘context window’ is a misnomer, as context requires understanding and comprehension.

I'm sure it wouldn't. Prove it, you're wrong. Existing bugs already do that stuff better. And "if you train it" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, since actual bugs can handle novel situations.