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A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

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475 points zdw | 3 comments | 06 Jul 25 22:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.884s | source
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rockskon ◴[07 Jul 25 02:02 UTC] No.44486031[source]▶
The people in this thread incredulous at the assertion that they are not God and haven't invented machine life are exasperating. At this point I am convinced they, more often than not, financially benefit from their near religious position in marketing AI as akin to human intelligence.
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1. orbital-decay ◴[07 Jul 25 08:03 UTC] No.44487814[source]▶
Are we looking at the same thread? I see nobody claiming this. Anthropic does sometimes, their position is clearly wishful thinking, and it's not represented ITT.

Try looking at this from another perspective - many people simply do not see human intelligence (or life, for that matter) as magic. I see nothing religious about that, rather the opposite.

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2. seadan83 ◴[07 Jul 25 08:16 UTC] No.44487900[source]▶
I agree with you @orbital-decay that I also do not get the same vibe reading this thread.

Though, while human intelligence is (seemingly) not magic, it is very far from being understood. The idea that a LLM is comparable to human intelligence implies that we even understand human intelligence well enough to say that.

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3. ImHereToVote ◴[07 Jul 25 15:32 UTC] No.44491412[source]▶
LLMs are also not understood. I mean we built and trained them. But don't of the abilities at still surprising to researchers. We have yet to map these machines.