We’re all just elementary particles being clumped together in energy gradients, therefore my little computer project is sentient—this is getting absurd.
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We didn't "find" AI, we invented systems that some people want to call AI, and some people aren't convinced it meets the bar
It is entirely reasonable for people to realize we set the bar too low when it is a bar we invented
Who is "we"?
I think of "AI" as a pretty all-encompassing term. ChatGPT is AI, but so is the computer player in the 1995 game Command and Conquer, among thousands of other games. Heck, I might even call the ghosts in Pac-man "AI", even if their behavior is extremely simple, predictable, and even exploitable once you understand it.
The goalposts already differentiated between "totally human-like" vs "actually conscious"
See also Philosophical Zombie thought experiment from the 70s.
The current LLM anthropomorphism may soon be known as the silicon Turk. Managing to make people think they're AI.
They literally believe that the AI will supersede the scientific process. It's crypto shit all over again.
Anything less than that, meh.
We don’t even have a good way to quantify human ability. The idea that we could suddenly develop a technique to quantify human ability because we now have a piece of technology that would benefit from that quantification is absurd.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to measure the ability of an LLM. But it does mean that the techniques used to quantify an LLMs ability are not something that can be applied to humans outside of narrow focus areas.
Call it AI, call it LLMs, whatever
Just as long as we continue to recognize that it is a tool that humans can use, and don't start trying to treat it as a human, or as a life, and I won't complain
I'm saving my anger for when idiots start to argue that LLMs are alive and deserve human rights
Look I’m no stranger to love. you know the rules and so do I… you can’t find this conversation with any other guy.
But since the parent was making a meta commentary on this conversation I’d like to introduce everyone here as Kettle to a friend of mine known as #000000
The initial LLMs simply lied about everything. If you happened to know something it was rather shocking but for topics you knew nothing about you got a rather convincing answer. Then the arms race begun and now the lies are so convincing we are at viable robot overlords.