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Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless. (themarkup.org)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, brains are a network of neurons (we can evidentially verify this) trained on … eyes, ears, sense of touch, taste, smell and balance (rewarded by endorphins released by the old brain on certain hardcoded stimuli). LLMs are a network of neurons trained on text and images (rewarded by producing text that mimics input text and some reasoning tests).

It’s not given that this results in the same way of dealing with language, given the wider set of input data for a human, but it’s not given that it doesn’t either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Humans predict things by assigning meaning to events and things, because in nature, we're constantly trying to guess what other creatures are planning. An LLM does not hypothesize what your plans are when you communicate to it, it's just trying to predict the next set of tokens with the greatest reward value. Even if you were to use literal human neurons to build your LLM, you would still have a stochastic parrot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean I have an opinion too; what I’m seeking is evidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why should I need to prove a negative? The burden is on the ones claiming an LLM is sentient. LLMs are token predictors, do I need to present evidence of this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I’m not asking you to prove anything. I’m saying I haven’t seen evidence either way so for me, it’s too early to draw conclusions.