Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Word roots say they have a point though. Artifice, Artificial etc. I think the main problem with the way both of the people above you are using this terminology is that they’re focusing on the wrong word and how that word is being conflated with something it’s not.

  LLM’s are artificial. They are a man made thing that is intended to fool man into believing they are something they aren’t. What were meant to be convinced they are is sapiently intelligent.

  Mimicry is not sapience and that’s where the argument for LLM’s being real honest to God AI falls apart.

  Sapience is missing from Generative LLM’s. They don’t actually think. They don’t actually have motivation. What we’re doing when we anthropomorphize them is we are fooling ourselves into thinking they are a man-made reproduction of us without the meat flavored skin suit. That’s not what’s happening. But some of us are convinced that it is, or that it’s near enough that it doesn’t matter.

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• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks. I stand corrected.

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