So… not intelligent.
But they are intelligent - just not in the way people tend to think.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with avoiding certain terminology, but I’d caution against deliberately using incorrect terms, because that only opens the door to more confusion. It might help when explaining something one-on-one in private, but in an online discussion with a broad audience, you should be precise with your choice of words. Otherwise, you end up with what looks like disagreement, when in reality it’s just people talking past each other - using the same terms but with completely different interpretations.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
“Intelligent” is itself a highly unspecific term which covers quite a lot of different things.
What you’re think is “reasoning” or “rationalizing”, and LLMs can’t do that at all.
However what LLMs (and most Machine Learning implementations) can do is “pattern matching” which is also an element of intelligence: it’s what gives us and most animals the ability to recognize things such as food or predators without actually thinking about it (you just see, say, a cat, and you know without thinking that it’s a cat even though cat’s don’t all look the same), plus in humans it’s also what’s behind intuition.