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LLMs understand nullability

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169 points mattmarcus | 2 comments | 07 Apr 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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nativeit ◴[07 Apr 25 16:06 UTC] No.43613007[source]▶
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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nativeit ◴[07 Apr 25 16:09 UTC] No.43613040[source]▶
Sorry, this is more about the discussion of this article than the article itself. The moving goal posts that acolytes use to declare consciousness are becoming increasingly cult-y.
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wongarsu ◴[07 Apr 25 16:14 UTC] No.43613083[source]▶
We spent 40 years moving the goal posts on what constitutes AI. Now we seem to have found an AI worthy of that title and instead start moving the goal posts on "consciousness", "understanding" and "intelligence".
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1. arkh ◴[07 Apr 25 16:44 UTC] No.43613368[source]▶
The original meaning of mechanical Turk is about a chess hoax and how it managed to make people think it was a thinking machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

The current LLM anthropomorphism may soon be known as the silicon Turk. Managing to make people think they're AI.

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2. 6510 ◴[07 Apr 25 22:23 UTC] No.43616596[source]▶
The mechanical Turk did something truly magical. Everyone stopped moaning that automation was impossible because most machines (while some absurdly complex) were many orders of magnitude simpler than chess.

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.