Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.

CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is stringing words together really considered knowledge?

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If they’re strung together correctly then yeah.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Does it have agency?

    Then yss

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s semantics. The difference between an llm and “asking” wikipedia a knowledge question is that the llm will “answer” you with predictive text. Both things contain more knowledge than you do, as in they have answers to more trivia and test questions than you ever will.

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    • Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a new word for you: information

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    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess I can see that, maybe my understanding of words or their implication is incorrect. While I would agree they contain more knowledge I guess that reads different to me than being more knowledgeable. I think that maybe it comes across as anthropomorphizing a dataset of information to me. I could easily be wrong.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As much as a search engine is

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