Comment by redfloatplane
1 day ago
Assuming they would understand it as artificial - I think many people would think it's a human intelligence in a cyborg trenchcoat, and it would be hard to convince people it wasn't literally a guy named Claude who was an incredibly fast typist who had a million pre-cached templated answers for things.
But in general, yeah, I agree, I think they would think it was a sentient, conscious, emotional being. And then the question is - why do we not think that now?
As I said, I don't have a particularly strong opinion, but it's very interesting (and fun!) to think about.
Some people at my office still confidently state that LLMs can’t think. I’m fairly convinced that many humans are incapable of recognizing non-human intelligence. It would explain a lot about why we treat animals the way we do.
That depends on what you call "Think" we made the interface of LLM of the second "L", Language. And it can hack our perspective of the thing.
Because questions like this force us to hold up a very uncomfortable mirror to ourselves. It’s much easier to just dismiss.
I’m pretty close to the point of saying that human intelligence is not special.
I would argue the opposite. It’s gotten us to a point were we can recreate human intelligence from electricity and a bunch of math!
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Despite the stupendous amount of evidence to the contrary?
So far no evidence has been detected in space or on earth, for all of history, of anything being intelligent in the way humans are.
One certain outcome of the Fermi Paradox: humans are outstandingly unique, according to all available evidence, which is the only measure that matters.
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