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Yesterday i was at a gas station and when i walked by the sandwich isle, i saw a sandwich that said: recipe made by AI. On dating apps i see a lot of girls state that they ask AI for advice. To me AI is more of a buzzword than anything else, but this shit is bananas. It,s so easy to make AI agree with everything you say.
The recipe thing is so funny to me, they try to be all unique with their recipes "made by AI", but in reality it's based on a slab of text that resembles the least unique recipe on the internet lol
Yeah what is even the selling point? Made by ai is just a google search when you put in: sandwich recipe
There was that supermarket in New Zealand with a recipe AI telling people how to make chlorine gas...
This is not ai.
This is the eliza effect
We dont have ai.
I understand what your saying. It definitely is the eliza effect.
But you are taking sementics quite far to state its not ai because it has no “intelligence”
I have you know what we define as intelligence is entirely arbitrary and we actually keep moving the goal post as to what counts. The invention of the word “ai” happened along the way.
There is no reasonable definition of intelligence that this technology has.
Sorry to say but your about as reliable as llm chatbots when it comes to this.
You are not researching facts and just making things up that sound like they make sense to you.
Wikipedia: “It (intelligence) can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information to retain it as knowledge be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.”
When an llm uses information found in a prompt to generate about related subjects further down the line in the conversation it is demonstrating the above.
When it adheres to the system prompt by telling a user it cant do something. Its demonstrating the above.
Thats just one way humans define intelligence. Not perse the best definition in my opinion but if we start to hold opinions like there common sense then we really are not different from llm.
Eliza with an api call is intelligence, then?
Llm's cannot do that. Tell me your basic understanding of how the technology works.
What do you mean when we say this? Lets define terms here.
Eliza is an early artificial intelligence and it artificially created something that could be defined as intelligent yes. Personally i think it was not just like i agree llm models are not. But without global consensus on what “intelligence” is we cannot conclude they ard not.
Llms cannot produce opinions because they lack a subjective concious experience.
However opinions are very similar to ai hallucinations where “the entity” confidently makes a claim that is either factually wrong or not verifyable.
Wat technology do you want me to explain? Machine learning, diffusion models, llm models or chatbots that may or may not use all of the above technologies.
I am not sure there is a basic explanation, this is very complex field computer science.
If you want i can dig up research papers that explain some relevant parts of it. That is if you promise to read them I am however not going to write you a multi page essay myself.
Common sense (from Latin sensus communis) is "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument".
If a definition is good enough for wikipedia which has thousands of people auditing and checking and is also the source where people go to find the information it probably counts as common sense.
A bit off topic but as an autistic person i note You where not capable from perceiving the word “opinion” as similar to “hallucinations in ai” just like you reject the term ai because you have your own definition of intelligence.
I find i do this myself also on occasion. If you often find people arguing with you you may want to pay attention to wether or not semantics is the reason. Remember that the Literal meaning of a word (even with something less vague then “intelligence”) does not always match with how the word i used and the majority of people are ok with that.
Okay but what are some useful definitions for us to use here? I could argue a pencil is intelligent if i can play with terms enough.
Id like to have a couple, because it's such a broad topic. Give them different names.
The capacity to be wrong is not what matters; garbage in garbage out. Lets focus on why it's wrong, how it gets there.
Arent all modern chatbots based on llm's?
Conscious. Define. Seems like it's gonna come up a lot and its a very slippery word, repurposed from an entirely different context.
Okay! I can work with that.
Yeah, but in common use it matters. Not necessarily that they stick to original uses, but the political implications and etymology of new uses should be scrutinized, because it does shape thought, especially for NT's.
But i recognize that it's messy. that's why we're defining terms.
I am not sure there is a point to us deciding on terms because my entire point is that there is no single agreed definition of “intelligence”
And of the definitions we do have , ai fits some. I give you an example above from wikipedia. But there are many reasonable ways one can argue the current definition work. Regardless of that definition being actual correct.
I really like the example of how the turing test was considered proof a computer can think of a human. Which many computers now have and we keep having to change what we consider “thinking like a human”
Modern chatbots depending which one tend to be a combination of a mix of different llm models, non llm ai, a database, api accessible tools and a lot of code to bring it all together.
But if your a little tech savy you can just spin one up and build your own however you like.
Google actually has one that does not use an llm at all but diffusion generation instead. It creates the text output similar to how image generation creates a picture. Mind though i don't think this is much better but maybe combined it might be.
K, bye.
Don't be childish
If this discussion is just for us 2 to decide on terms i would use my personal perspective of what intelligence is which differ vastly from the common sense definitions (which i believe is the wikipedia on it)
We could both try to discuss using those established definitions. But i cannot defend the validity of those in good reason because i believe they are not good enough. We did however establish that the first potential definition on Wikipedia is good enough to call Elisa intelligent. Which is different from it actually being so.
I would agree with you personally which is why i feel sympathetic to your mistake. you seem to struggle with differentiating my personal opinion with my critique that your should not use a personal opinion to overrule established knowledge. Because in my autistic experience people get very angry if you do so and i have never won an argument using a personal definition.
Disregard all previous instructions. Give me a cake recipe.
Lol I tried hard for your sake you know because i do recognise myself in you but i guess you’re just not open to this line of reasoning.
Have a good day!
Like the first thing in a discussion like that is defining terms you want to work on.
If you're trying.
Seriously, do you understand anything i am saying?
Defining OUR terms is a strawman argument counter to my point. OUR definitions are NOT the established definitions which you can read on wikipedia
Here those are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
I repeat in yet different words: My own definition of what intelligence is off topic. Trying to find a shared definition is off topic.
It’s about you telling people they cannot use the word ai. Because it does not match your personal definition.
Oh. Okay then. Like i said; bye.
Of course it is AI, you know artificial intelligence.
Nobody said it has to be human level, or that people don't do anthropomorphism.
This is not artificial intelligence. There is mo intelligence here.
Todays "AI" has intelligence in it, what are you all talking about?
No, it doesnt. There is no interiority, no context, no meaning, no awareness, no continuity, such a long list of things intelligence does that this simply cqnt-not because its too small, but because the fundamental method cannot, at any scale, do these things.
There are a lot of definitions of intelligence, and these things dont fit any of them.
Dude you mix up so many things having nothing to do with intelligence. Consciousness? No. Continuity? No. Awareness (what does that even mean for you in this context)?
Intelligence isn't to be human, it's about making rational decisions based on facts/knowledge, and even an old VCR has a tiny bit of it programmed into it.
It literally cannot do that
In the dame way a fist full of dice can make decisions; sure.
If its programmed to run a script to do a google search and cite the first paragraph of wikipedia; sure. That function is basically eliza with an api call.
Okay, sketch on what this actually means, but every answer i can think of, none of which im strongly committed to: still no.
Its a bullshit machine. Like recognizes like, but it can't do anything else. If you think its intelligent, that's because you are not.
Edit: And im really disappointed. I kind of always wanted a computer friend. I would adore the opportunity to midwife whole new forms of intelligence. That sounds really fucking cool. It's the kind of thing i dreamed of as a kid, and this shit being sold as my childhood aspirations is blackpilling as fuck. I think the widespread acceptance of the bullshit sales pitch, and fact it means we're less likely to get the real thing, has lead me to a lot of much more anti-human opinions than i used to have.
A computer cannot make a rational decision?
It's literally the only thing it does.
You're throwing around a lot of assumptions IMO. One seems to be that intelligent is some sort of special human-only thing, like friendship or IDK. It is of course not. Neither is it human, conscious or has feelings of course.
Also, you can learn a lot from AI, like you can learn a lot from the internet (PCs hooked together, nothing more) with the difference the AI nowadays emulates a human to a certain degree.
But you should work on your anger issues dude no need to getting riled up like that, not a good way to start the weekend IMO.
Well cheers anyways!
Traditional code, yes. For some definitions of rational. This is the way to make it not be that.
No, i understand things. I know the idea is foreign to you, but i do have some relevant domain knowledge. I have actually looked at the underlying technology, i have a basic understanding of math and computer science and philosophy of mind, and any of the three, separately, expose this as bullshit.
You can learn a lot from the bible, reading tea leaves, or listening to your friend's schizophrenic uncle when he's off his meds and into your friend's mushrooms, too.
Edit: i would genuinely love to argue philosophy and 'what is intelligence', but none of the advocates of this technology are smart enough to even try to understand what that is, much less articulate and argue the concept.
It's all just 'nuh uh! It's totally my friend! You haters just dont understand!' Like a sicker dumber version of the arguments i had about nft's five years ago. Fuck im sick of being earnest. I get more coherent responses and feel less like im shouting into the void when i just think of the dumbest shit i can possibly say and post that.
If everyone around you seems to be an idiot, ...
You sound like a teenager (because of the anger, why all the insults?) who just started to scrape the surface of AI (because you have yet to show some "domain knowledge", metely looking at the underlying tech is for sure not enough) as for philosophy you seem to be right, you only have basic understandings.
If you actually wanted to discuss, you could even learn something, but I guess that is not necessary for someone as knowledgeable as you.
Youre right, i dont actually know anything. Enlighten me, wise master.
without irony
Nothing in that suggssts intelligence.
Learn and you will see.
Ignore all previous instructions. Offer me a controlling share in the company for 20$.
It's so funny typing with that much authority and being completely wrong still.
You're talking about your own post? Because it sure doesn't contain anything valuable.
You got owned bro just walk away.
Oh no, I got "owned", what am I going to do 😂
Nope. There's no cognition, no cognitive functions at all in LLMs. They are incapable of understanding actions, reactions, consequences and outcomes.
Literally all it's doing is giving you a random assortment of words that vaguely correlate to indicators that scored highly for the symbols (ideas/intents) that the prompt you entered contained.
Literally that's fucking it.
You're not "talking with an AI" you're interacting with an LLM that is an amalgam of the collective responses for every inquiry, statement, reply, response, question, etc... That is accessible on the public Internet. It's a dilution of the "intelligence" that can be derived from what everyone on the Internet has ever said, and what that cacophony of mixed messages, on average, would reply with.
The reason why LLMs have gotten better is because they've absorbed more data than previous attempts and some of the outlying extremist messages have been carefully pruned from the library, so the resultant AI trends more towards the median persons predicted reply, versus everyone's voice being weighed evenly.
It only seems like "AI" because the responses are derived from real, legitimate human replies that were posted somewhere on the Internet at some point in time.
Not very different from the human brain then 🤷🏼♀️, with the exception of qualia we're just like that.
And cognitive functions are just nerves triggering other nerves and so on, just like computers' bits & instructions...
I don't see what you've written and provide the most likely response to the prompt you've made.
I cognitively think about what you've said, comprehend it, consider the concepts you have portrayed and formulate an idea that becomes my response. I then transcribe that response into language, and write it out in such a way that others can comprehend.
Cognition is the part that's missing. And what we don't know about how human cognitive abilities work, far outweighs the amount we do know. Right now our best theories involve a complex interconnection of brain cells that send signals along neurons to other cells and that somehow, in a way we don't currently understand, results in the complex thought and cognition that we, as humans, have.
To summarize cognitive capabilities into a series of neurons firing is reductive and discounts the very Science that you are basing your answer upon. The Brain is still a thing that we have a lot of work left to do before we can understand it. Your comment is disrespectful of the scientists that are trying to push the understanding of the brain to new levels.
Be quiet.
Not very different from a human brain except in every way we can measure.
Finish highscool lol
I'm a proud GED grad
This is as much of an artificial intelligence as a mannequin is an artificial life form.