Comment by miyoji
7 hours ago
> But this says nothing about its capacity for intelligence anymore than not naturally being able to distinguish frequencies of photons hitting your retina has anything to say about human intelligence.
I disagree with this pretty strongly, because I don't think you're correct that I don't have the ability to distinguish frequencies of photons hitting my retina. We have a lot of tools that can determine the frequency of light and I can use those on any source of light that I wish to measure that may hit my retinas.
If you ask an LLM how many Rs are in strawberry, it wouldn't think like this. It would confidently state that there are two Rs. Even though it "knows" that it can write a python script to count the number of Rs in strawberry, it doesn't do that. Why not? Is it maybe because it isn't intelligent? Yeah, you can prompt an LLM to write a script to count the number of Rs in strawberry, but that's a use of your intelligence, not the LLM's.
>We have a lot of tools that can determine the frequency of light and I can use those on any source of light that I wish to measure that may hit my retinas.
Yes, which is why I said naturally distinguish. Have you asked a frontier model how many r's are in strawberry recently? They get it right now. Either through RHLF to ensure they spell out the word letter by letter or some other means. Humans and LLMs both use tools or alternative means to overcome perceptual limitations. I don't see an in principle difference here.