Comment by wat10000
4 hours ago
It's weird. It's literally what they are. It's a gigantic mathematical function that takes input and assigns probabilities to tokens.
Maybe they can also be smart. I'm skeptical that the current LLM approach can lead to human-level intelligence, but I'm not ruling it out. If it did, then you'd have human-level intelligence in a very elaborate autocomplete. The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
People are hung up on what they “really” are. I think it matters more how the interact with the world. It doesn’t matter if they are really intelligent or not, if they act as if they are.
Totally agreed. Although the difference between sounding intelligent and being intelligent is proving to be a bit troublesome.