Comment by smrtinsert
16 hours ago
> The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive
Maybe for laymen, but I would think most technologists should understand that we're working with the output of what is effectively a massive spreadsheet which is creating a prediction.
The thing with evolutionary wiring is that it doesn't matter if you're layman or "technologist". The technologist part is just a small layer on top of very thick caveman/animal insticts and programming.
That's why a technologist can, just as easily as any layman, get addicted to gambling, or do crazy behaviors when attracted by the opposite sex.
>small layer on top of very thick caveman/animal insticts and programming.
Which is also why marketing and advertising works on EVERYONE. When AI puts out the phrase "Prompt engineering", everyone instinctively treat it as something deterministic, despite them having some idea of how an LLM works...
The same could be said for your brain.
LLMs are highly intelligent. Comparing them to spreadsheets is reductionist and highly misleading.
>LLMs are highly intelligen
I will tell you why it is not.
Intelligence is understanding low level stuff and using it to reason about and understand high level stuff.
When LLMs demonstrate "highly intelligent" behavior, like solving a complex math problem (high level stuff), but also simultaneously demonstrate that it does not know how to count (low level stuff that the high level stuff depends on), it proves that it is not actually "intelligent" and is not "reasoning".
You just invented you own definition of intelligence. I'm pretty sure that strategy could also support the opposite conclusion.
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