Submitted 3 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world
I just tried Claude after having some issues with using GPT on Firefox that OpenAI’s support was unable to resolve other than some “it’s all your fault clear, your cookies” bullet points.
I only tried Claude a little bit so far, but it seems way better.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat relatively a lot lately and it has always worked for me. Well, with one exception, I was able to break it accidentally by including a specific special character in the input, which then it tried to respond with, and then it failed to load the response. Luckily I was about to tell it to refer to that character in a different way. I don’t remember which character was it, but not a punctuation mark, not something rare I copied from somewhere. Maybe one that’s often displayed with an empty rectangle in UTF-8.
I like that anything I do there is not tied to an account, but not even to an IP address or anything like that, assuming that I trust DDG with it, because it acts as a proxy. Sure, it doesn’t have the latest version of ChatGPT and Claude, but I don’t need cutting edge tech either, they work fine enough, and this added privacy is more important to me.
Well most have already cashed in on the hype, now it’s time to jump onto the next hype train.
* something that behaves almost completely like an AGI.
Ed Zitron’s take: www.wheresyoured.at/burst-damage/
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
LLMs will not give us AGI. This is obvious to anyone who knows how they work.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 months ago
LLMs alone won't. Experts in the field seem to have different opinions on if they will help get us there. What is concerning to me is that the issues and dangers of AGI also exist with advanced LLM models, and that research is being shelved because it gets in the way of profit. Maybe we'll never be able to get to AGI, but we sure better hope if we do we get it right the first time. How's that been going with the more primitive LLMs?
Do we even know what the "right" AGI would be? We're treading in dangerous waters.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Corollary: anyone who thinks LLMs will give us AGI - regardless of academic or professional experience and expertise - either doesn’t understand how LLMs work, or is intentionally lying.
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe it can. If you find a way to conver everything to text by hooking in different models, the LLM might be able to reason about everything you throw at it. Who even defines how AGI should be implemented?
kia@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The LLM is just trying to produce output text that resembles the patterns it saw in the training set. There’s no “reasoning” involved.
mke@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Except LLMs don’t actually have real reasoning capacity. Hooking in different models that can translate more of the world to text could give the LLM a broader domain, but not an entirely new ability beyond its architecture. That might make it more convincing, but it would still fail in the same ways as it currently does.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
LLMs can’t reason about anything, ever.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
LLMs do not reason, they probabilistically determine the next word based on the words you prompt it with. The most perfect implementation of “AI” was the T9 predictive text system for dumb phones cmv.
capital@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I haven’t assumed that those who believe AGI will, at some point, come to be necessarily think that LLMs is exactly the tech which will get us there. Just that AGI is likely to happen because they don’t think there’s anything super special about the meat in our heads that makes intelligence possible and it should be able to be reproduced in other mediums.
kureta@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I have been trying to convince my friend for weeks now. Not 24/7 of course. I try to explain how it works and we need at least another conceptually new method, this will never cut it. He says, “nobody could have predicted any of this, so you cannot be sure. You see, ChatGPT will take all the jobs in a couple of years.”