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0 pointsshafyy11mo ago0 comments

Countering the argument that LLMs are just gloriefied probability machines and do not undertand or think with "how do you know humans are not the same" has been the biggest achievement of AI hypemen (and yes, it's mostly men).

Of course, now you can say "how do you know that our brains are not just efficient computers that run LLMs", but I feel like the onus of proof lies on the makers of this claim, not on the other side.

It is very likely that human intelligence is not just autocomplete on crack, given all we know about neuroscience so far.

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BobbyTables211mo ago

I’ve come to realize AI works as well as it does because it was trained extensively on the same kinds of things people normally ask. So, it already has the benefit of vast amounts of human responses.

Of course, ask it a PhD level question and it will confidently hallucinate more than Beavis & Butthead.

It really is a damn glorified autocomplete, unfortunately very useful as a search engine replacement.

uh_uh11mo ago

The LLM is a glorified autocomplete in as much as you are a glorified replicator. Yes, it was trained on autocomplete but that doesn't say much about what capabilities might emerge.

shafyyOP11mo ago

> Yes, it was trained on autocomplete but that doesn't say much about what capabilities might emerge.

No, but we know how it works and it is just a stochastic parrot. There is no magic in there.

What is more suprising to me that humans are so predictable that a glorified autocomplete works this well. Then again, it's not that suprising....

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mlinhares11mo ago

BuT iT CoUlD Be, cAn YoU PrOvE ThAT IT is NOt?

I'm having a great experience using Cursor, but i don't feel like trying to overhype it, it just makes me tired to see all this hype. Its a great tool, makes me more productive, nothing beyond that.

shafyyOP11mo ago

That's great for you. I'm not diminishing your experience or taking it away. I think we agree on the hype.

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0 pointsshafyy11mo ago0 comments

Of course, now you can say "how do you know that our brains are not just efficient computers that run LLMs", but I feel like the onus of proof lies on the makers of this claim, not on the other side.

It is very likely that human intelligence is not just autocomplete on crack, given all we know about neuroscience so far.

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BobbyTables211mo ago

Of course, ask it a PhD level question and it will confidently hallucinate more than Beavis & Butthead.

It really is a damn glorified autocomplete, unfortunately very useful as a search engine replacement.

uh_uh11mo ago

The LLM is a glorified autocomplete in as much as you are a glorified replicator. Yes, it was trained on autocomplete but that doesn't say much about what capabilities might emerge.

shafyyOP11mo ago

> Yes, it was trained on autocomplete but that doesn't say much about what capabilities might emerge.

No, but we know how it works and it is just a stochastic parrot. There is no magic in there.

What is more suprising to me that humans are so predictable that a glorified autocomplete works this well. Then again, it's not that suprising....

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mlinhares11mo ago

BuT iT CoUlD Be, cAn YoU PrOvE ThAT IT is NOt?

I'm having a great experience using Cursor, but i don't feel like trying to overhype it, it just makes me tired to see all this hype. Its a great tool, makes me more productive, nothing beyond that.

shafyyOP11mo ago

That's great for you. I'm not diminishing your experience or taking it away. I think we agree on the hype.

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