Comment by gjm11
6 hours ago
I am not enthusiastic about criteria for human-like intelligence that imply that dyslexic people don't have human-like intelligence.
[EDITED to add:] I actually don't know whether dyslexic people find it difficult to count letters in words, if they have them already written down by someone else. I suspect they find it harder than people who aren't dyslexic. But perhaps "blind people whose spelling is poor" would have been better; I would not want to deny them human-like intelligence either.
I have slight dyslexia. I can't automatically write double consonants all the time.
But counting certain type of letters is very simple algorithmic task especially in written text. Any reasonably intelligent actually thinking thing should come up with algo and then execute it. Which to me sounds like reasonable minimum bar for general intelligence.
Exactly. It's got nothing to do with sensory input and everything to do with reasoning.
If someone asked me how many f's are in a word I hadn't seen before verbally, then a reasoned response would be that I don't know, but I estimate based on the syllables...or ask them to spell it out.
These are all the sorts of questions where general problem solving works, even if the conclusion is "I don't have enough data to speculate".
So that these models fall apart on it so readily means we're either grossly handicapping then with the requirement to "be helpful" or they just fail to recognize the problem and are just stochastically spitting out a high probability token sequence for the input.