Comment by timschmidt
6 days ago
> Bold claim, as the internet is awash with counterexamples.
What do you consider a counterexample? Because I've been involved in local politics lately, and can say from experience that any foundation model is capable of more rational and detailed thought, and more creative expression, than most of the beloved members of my community.
If you're comparing AI to the pinnacle of human achievement, as another commenter pointed to Shakespeare, then I think the argument is already won in favor of AI.
The claim was precise:
> I think there's demonstrably very little difference at all between human and AI outputs
Counterexamples range from em-dashes, “Not-this, but-that”, people complaining about AI music on Spotify (including me) that sounds vaguely like a genre but is missing all of the instrumentation and motifs common to that genre.
The rest of your comment I don’t even know how to respond to, to be honest.
> em-dashes, “Not-this, but-that”
I've literally seen humans accusing other humans of being AI here on hackernews for these. Q.E.D.
You’re really going to make the claim that there are no counterexamples of human and AI output being indistinguishable on the internet? At least make the counterclaim that “those are from old models, not the newest ones”, that’s more intellectually invigorating than the comment you just provided.
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>as another commenter pointed to Shakespeare
Lol wut?
I was not saying that LLMs cannot produce something like pinnacle of human achievement. I was saying we cannot quantify the difference between Shakespeare and something commonplace, because it requires the ability to feel.
I think you are being very dishonest here..
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