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In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by yesman to c/[email protected]

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I think AI is neat.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The way I've come to understand it is that LLMs are intelligent in the same way your subconscious is intelligent.

It works off of kneejerk "this feels right" logic, that's why images look like dreams, realistic until you examine further.

We all have a kneejerk responses to situations and questions, but the difference is we filter that through our conscious mind, to apply long-term thinking and our own choices into the mix.

LLMs just keep getting better at the "this feels right" stage, which is why completely novel or niche situations can still trip it up; because it hasn't developed enough "reflexes" for that problem yet.

[–] fidodo 14 points 10 months ago

LLMs are intelligent in the same way books are intelligent. What makes LLMs really cool is that instead of searching at the book or page granularity, it searches at the word granularity. It's not thinking, but all the thinking was done for it already by humans who encoded their intelligence into words. It's still incredibly powerful, at it's best it could make it so no task ever needs to be performed by a human twice which would have immense efficiency gains for anything information based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

ah, yes, prejudice