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Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

These things are like arguing about whether or not a pet has feelings…

I’d say it’s far more likely for a cat or a dog to have complex emotions and thoughts than for the human made LLM to actually be thinking. It seems to like the nativity of human kind to me that we even think we might have created something with consciousness.

I’m in the camp that thinks the LLMs are by and large a huge grift (that can produce useful output for certain tasks) by virtue of extreme exaggeration of the facts, but maybe I’m wrong.

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UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

These things are like arguing about whether or not a pet has feelings…

Mhm. And what’s fundamentally wrong with such an argument?

I’d say it’s far more likely for a cat or a dog to have complex emotions and thoughts than for the human made LLM to actually be thinking.

Why?

I’m in the camp that thinks the LLMs are by and large a huge grift (that can produce useful output for certain tasks) by virtue of extreme exaggeration of the facts, but maybe I’m wrong.

Why?

I too see how grifters use AI to further their scams. That’s with the case of any new tech that pops up. This however, doesn’t make LLMs not interesting.

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