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

• SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like the A large plinko game pin board. the plinko analogy. If you prearrange the pins so that dropping your chip at the top for certain words make’s it likely to land on certain answers. Now, 600 billion pins make’s for quite complex math but there definetly isn’t any reasoning involved, only prearranging the pins make’s it look that way.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve made a similar argument and the response was, “Our brains work the same way!”

    LLMs probably are as smart as people if you just pick the right people lol.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Allegedly park rangers in the 80s were complaining it was hard to make bear-proof garbage bins because people are sometimes stupider than the bears.

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      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        LOL I remember a real life park ranger actually telling me this.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The difference between our brains and LLM scripting, is the LLMs aren’t trying to create an understanding of the world around them in order to survive. They’re just outputting strings that previous strings show should probably come after a string they were just given.

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      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Correct, and I’ve had people tell me no it’s much more complicated than that and I “clearly” didn’t understand how AI worked (I’m a senior software dev lol, and have been studying AI since “expert systems” were going to revolutionize the world back in the late 80s).

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      • Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That sure sounds like fox news connoisseurs.

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