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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)
submitted 2 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Half of LLM users (49%) think the models they use are smarter than they are, including 26% who think their LLMs are “a lot smarter.” Another 18% think LLMs are as smart as they are. Here are some of the other attributes they see:

  • Confident: 57% say the main LLM they use seems to act in a confident way.
  • Reasoning: 39% say the main LLM they use shows the capacity to think and reason at least some of the time.
  • Sense of humor: 32% say their main LLM seems to have a sense of humor.
  • Morals: 25% say their main model acts like it makes moral judgments about right and wrong at least sometimes. Sarcasm: 17% say their prime LLM seems to respond sarcastically.
  • Sad: 11% say the main model they use seems to express sadness, while 24% say that model also expresses hope.
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[–] 1984 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

An llm simply has remembered facts. If that is smart, then sure, no human can compete.

Now ask an llm to build a house. Oh shit, no legs and cant walk. A human can walk without thinking about it even.

In the future though, there will be robots who can build houses using AI models to learn from. But not in a long time.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

Maybe if the adults actually didn't use the LLMs so much this wouldn't be the case.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Considering the amount of people that either voted trump or not voted at all, I'd say that there's a portion of americans lying.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

What that overwhelming, uncritical, capitalist propaganda do...

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow. Reading these comments so many people here really don't understand how LLMs work or what's actually going on at the frontier of the field.

I feel like there's going to be a cultural sonic boom, where when the shockwave finally catches up people are going to be woefully under prepared based on what they think they saw.

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[–] beatnixxx@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

At least half of US adults think that they themselves are smarter than they actually are, so this tracks.

[–] killabeezio@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

LLMs are smart, they are just not intelligent

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