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[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Well, two responses I have seen to the claim that LLMs are not reasoning are:

  1. we are all just stochastic parrots lmao
  2. maybe intelligence is an emergent ability that will show up eventually (disregard the inability to falsify this and the categorical nonsense that is our definition of "emergent").

So I think this research is useful as a response to these, although I think "fuck off, promptfondler" is pretty good too.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Language is a virus from outer space”

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

I thought it came from Babylonian writing that recoded the brains and planted the languages.