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Comment by skeledrew

8 hours ago

> That feels awful

Only if you subscribe to the "humans are special" rhetoric, in which case I'm - maybe - sorry to say the feeling will only intensify.

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dsign  8 hours ago

Upvoted. I think that said humans should get used to the idea that their intellect is special only insofar as it was first, and if they want to adopt or invent a value system that keeps them at the center, that's actually fine and good for their survival. But said humans would do well to stop laboriously and curmudgeonly moving the posts that mark the goals, and get busy trying to coax the AI to do useful things for them and for the species as a whole.

  • juvvel  7 hours ago

    If human intelligence is so boring and non-special, how exactly did LLMs get this smart? Is it not from a) being developed by humans and b) being fed a very large portion of all human-generated text?

    Without the human intellect to emulate, LLMs would be nothing.

    • skeledrew  7 hours ago

      LLMs learn from patterns in human-provided data (and soon each other and directly from nature). Humans learn(ed) from patterns in nature-provided data, and eventually each other (and, increasingly, LLMs).

    • huty2  7 hours ago

      There are many here who hate humans I think.

      Prob because their life sucks.

  • Ygg2  7 hours ago

    > Upvoted. I think that said humans should get used to the idea that their intellect is special only insofar as it was first

    And used to build the LLMs of today. We'll see how that evolves once LLMs have to feed LLMs with their own "intellect".

goatlover  3 hours ago

I'm on the side of humans remaining special, at least on planet Earth. My strong sense is that a large majority of the public feels that way, and voting results in the future will start to reflect that regarding AI regulations.

I agree with Frank Herbert's view of "thinking machines".

suddenlybananas  7 hours ago

I genuinely don't understand how some people are so self-hating.

  • skeledrew  7 hours ago

    What's self-hating about acknowledging a fact? There's literally nothing a human can do that can't be done by another entity/group with even near-equivalent intelligence, alien or artificial.