Comment by AlotOfReading
5 days ago
People have "satired" similar hypotheticals about Sam Altman [0], and we know it's happened with people like Blake lemoine.
It makes me curious how much, if any, of the current LLM hype is simply coming from people who are dealing with the ELIZA effect.
[0] https://medium.com/where-thought-bends/the-7-trillion-delusi...
How'd ELIZA do on the International Math Olympiad?
It's quite fortunate that the ELIZA effect isn't defined by IMO scores, isn't it?
How is that point relevant? The ELIZA effect involves humans incorrectly attributing a simple computer program with intelligence. Meanwhile, a complex ML model that solves difficult problems it hasn't seen before is intelligent, whether you or I like it or not.
That part is no longer up for debate. The question is how useful and scalable this particular form of intelligence will turn out to be.