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[OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which he says makes users feel like they're "talking to a thoughtful person." Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, argued last year that the next generation of artificial intelligence will be "smarter than a Nobel Prize winner." Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google's DeepMind, said the goal is to create "models that are able to understand the world around us." These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not "understand" anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another.

OP: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/062257/ai-is-not-intelligent-the-atlantic-criticizes-scam-underlying-the-ai-industry

Primary source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-is-not-intelligent/ar-AA1GcZBz

Secondary source: https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780063418561

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (13 children)

The article is about LLMs specifically? And it's arguing that intelligence can't exist without subjectivity, the qualia of experiential data. These LLM text generators are being assigned intelligence they do not have because we have a tendency to assume there is a mind behind the text.

This is not about AI being conceptually impossible they're "made of math". I'm not even sure where you got that? Where did that quote come from? It's not in the link, or the Atlantic article.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

It's the last line quoted in the post. They talk a lot of fancy talk up front but their entire reasoning for LLMs not being capable of thought boils down to that they're statistical probability machines.

So is the process of human thought.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (11 children)

LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another.

This line?

Because that sure isn't the process of human thought! We have reasoning, logical deductions, experiential qualia, subjectivity. Intelligence is so much more than just making statistically informed guesses, we can actually prove things and uncover truths.

You're dehumanizing yourself by comparing yourself to a chatbot. Stop that.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 day ago

Are you sure you're not talking to a chatbot?

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