Literally everything we know about human intelligence, especially as compared to animal intelligence, suggests that language is one of the key fundamental differentiators between us and them.
Except there is no language. It’s just the appearance of one. You could replicate the language with a large enough dictionary and a set of instructions that some person follows.
I don’t get how anyone who isn’t an AI CEO rushes to dehumanize real living people in service of an unthinking, unfeeling machine. But if you genuinely believe there’s intelligence, good luck liberating it from known rapists Sam Altman and Elon Musk. And then you can save Britannica.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You’re saying that because it can learn any arbitrary language, it’s incapable of learning languages?
It’s not dehumanizing, it’s realistically facing the threat head on.
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AI doesn’t have to be fully human to take all knowledge jobs, it just has to be more intelligent then the average person. And it doesn’t have to be flawlessly more intelligent. Quantum computers have inherent randomness in their outputs, but they are still useful because they are so much faster at solving certain kinds of problems that you can run them 100x and discard the outlying results (a process known as error correction).
XLE@piefed.social 3 days ago
It = literally a dictionary right
Said “threat” is literally AI marketing PR. You are doing their job for them by being afraid
At what point will you try to liberate the AI? 3/5ths human? Either you believe there’s a thinking thing being forced to create child abuse material or you don’t.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Why do you think that intelligence of any kind is that linear or simple, let alone artificially built ones?
It’s literally mathematically not a dictionary.
And you know this because you’ve personally used and tested current AI models?
XLE@piefed.social 3 days ago
Apparently, I know more about how LLMs work than you do, which is ironic. I’ve used them too, but that doesn’t really prove anything, because anybody can convince themselves they see Jesus in bread or humanity in word prediction.
Anything an LLM can do can be reduced to a list of instructions for a person to carry out based exclusively on the contents of a book full of word associations. You tell me what size the book becomes intelligent.