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LLMs understand nullability

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169 points mattmarcus | 1 comments | 07 Apr 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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bluefirebrand ◴[07 Apr 25 16:22 UTC] No.43613171[source]▶
> Now we seem to have found an AI worthy of that title and instead start moving the goal posts on "consciousness", "understanding" and "intelligence".

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

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darkerside ◴[07 Apr 25 16:31 UTC] No.43613243[source]▶
What should the bar be? Should it be higher than it is for the average human? Or even the least intelligent human?
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1. bluefirebrand ◴[07 Apr 25 17:00 UTC] No.43613561[source]▶
Personally I don't care what the bar is, honestly

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