Comment on AGI achieved 🤖

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  why humans can’t produce the IPA spelling words they can say, /nɔr kæn ðeɪ ˈizəli rid θɪŋz ˈrɪtən ˈpjʊrli ɪn aɪ pi ˈeɪ/ despite the fact that it should be simple to – they understand the sounds after all

  That’s just access to the right keyboard interface. Humans can and do produce those spellings with additional effort or advanced tool sets.

  humans must be fundamentally stupid because of this one curious artifact.

  Humans turns oatmeal into essays via a curios lump of muscle is an impressive enough trick on its face.

  LLMs have 95% of the work of human intelligence handled for them and still stumble on the last bits.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, among people who are proficient with IPA, they still struggle to read whole sentences written entirely in IPA. Similarly, people who speak and read chinese struggle to read entire sentences written in pinyin. I’m not saying people can’t do it, just that it’s much less natural for us (even though it doesn’t really seem like it ought to be.)

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Similarly, people who speak and read chinese struggle to read entire sentences written in pinyin.

      Because pinyin was implemented by the Russians to teach Chinese to people who use Cyrillic characters. Would make as much sense to call out people who can’t use Katakana.

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      • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        More like calling out people who can’t read romaji, I think. It’s just not a natural encoding for most Japanese people, even if they can work it out if you give them time.

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