Comment by mdp2021
1 day ago
> That's how LLMs work
And that is also exactly how we want them not to work: we want them to be able to solve new problems. (Because Pandora's box is open, and they are not sold as a flexible query machine.)
"Where was Napoleon born": easy. "How to resolve the conflict effectively": hard. Solved problems are interesting to students. Professionals have to deal with non trivial ones.
> how we want them not to work
speak for yourself, I like solving problems and I'd like to retire before physical labor becomes the only way to support yourself
> they are not sold as a flexible query machine
yeah, SamA is a big fucking liar
I get your fear, d., but I am afraid we urgently need them tools, and to work properly. At some point in time the gap between workforce and objectives forced us to adopt cranes; at this point in time I see that "the carbon" is not "competing" enough. An IQ boost in the toolbox, when we will finally reach it, will be an enabler: for doom in the hands of fools, for the best in the hands of the wise - proportions worrisome but the game is not decided.
Meanwhile, there is no turning back and as the mockery of intelligence was invented, the Real Thing must be urgently found.
Edit: I have just read the title "Amateurish plan exposed failing diplomacy". The giants' list includes McNamara, Kissinger, Brzezinski: if some say that their efforts have not been sufficient - and failures are very costly -, what do we need?