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0 pointsRecycledEle1y ago0 comments

> The question is about "intelligence" and your argument is regarding memory and access to information.

I think my answer concerns intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.

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That's YOUR definition of intelligence anyway. LLMs fundamentally aren't intelligent because they cannot solve novel problems. It's literally just a complex auto complete that interpolates data from problems already solved by humans. It has no capacity to actually reason about anything.

RecycledEleOP1y ago

> That's YOUR definition of intelligence anyway.

Please tell me your definition of intelligence.

On a related note, I keep hearing that LLMs will never do X. As a teacher, I doubt that very many if any of my students can do X. LLMs may not be the perfect/God-like problem solver, but they are much smarter than anyone I work with at the community college.

pokerface_861y ago

you’re at community college, what do you expect? geniuses? in my basic math undergrad i encountered the limits of GPT daily, with a complete inability to solve anything above maybe freshman or sophomore level proofs. forget anything complex that hasn’t been answered extensively on stack overflow already.

jrflowers1y ago

This is a good point because “solving problems” and “generating convincing-sounding text” are the same thing. The fact that language models can answer heretofore unsolvable questions like “how many flimbops does it take to fill a fuzzlebugle to the halfway point?” means that Sam Altman has stolen fire from the gods as a modern day Prometheus

oopsallmagic1y ago

I asked my parrot the time complexity of quicksort, and he said "squawk N-squared!" He is clearly reasoning and I would like $500 million, please.

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