Comment by nozzlegear

9 hours ago

That's not clear at all. What's clear is that this is a very smart man who knows how to use this tool well.

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squidbeak  9 hours ago

I'd say an entity capable of instructing one of the leading mathematicians of his era is pretty clearly intelligent by any reasonable measure - however it might be arriving at its output.

  • nozzlegear  6 hours ago

    I think we have wildly different conclusions about what happened here. You see the machine as instructing Terrence Tao, as if it were Plato teaching Socrates about the theory of forms; I see Terrence Tao using the machine to teach himself, like an intelligent student uses a book. In this case, it's just a book that fools us into believing it can think and reason like we do, because it generates language in much the same way we do when we think and reason.

    • slidehero  1 hour ago

      > In this case, it's just a book that fools us into believing it can think and reason like we do

      that's some Harry Potter kind of "writes itself" book.

      at this point, for me, any comment about LLMs that begins with "it's just ..." is hard to take seriously.

      Terrence is impressed. Good enough for me.

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