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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)
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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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[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You say this like this is wrong.

Think of a question that you would ask an average person and then think of what the LLM would respond with. The vast majority of the time the llm would be more correct than most people.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Memory isn't intelligence.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Then asking it a logic question. What question are you asking that the llms are getting wrong and your average person is getting right? How are you proving intelligence here?

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

How many Rs are there in the word strawberry?

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

I asked gemini and ChatGPT (the free one) and they both got it right. How many people do you think would get that right if you didn't write it down in front of them? If Copilot gets it wrong, as per eletes' post, then the AI success rate is 66%. Ask your average person walking down the street and I don't think you would do any better. Plus there are a million questions that the LLMs would vastly out perform your average human.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That was a very long time ago, that's fine now

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

literally just asked copilot through our work subscription

I know it looks like I'm shitting on LLMs but really just trying to highlight they still have gaps on reasoning that they'll probably fix in this decade.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

A good example is the post on here about tax brackets. Far more Republicans didn't know how tax brackets worked than Democrats. But every mainstream language model would have gotten the answer right.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I bet the LLMs also know who pays tarrifs