This seems like a complete waste of time given the more practical and more urgent need to clarify to everyone involved that current LLMs are not actually intelligent.
This seems like a complete waste of time given the more practical and more urgent need to clarify to everyone involved that current LLMs are not actually intelligent.
What an utterly unconvincing call to action.
You’re not offering a rebuttal, just making another metaphysical claim about “intelligence.”
You don’t even attempt to explain what practical distinction your use of the word is supposed to capture.
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
— Bertrand Russell.
I'm not calling you to action, I'm explaining why I don't feel inclined to engage in philosophy and discuss "the concrete outcomes of intelligence" given a more pressing, pragmatic need.
It feel it's self-evident that we must fight the good fight of dissuading as many people as possible of the notion that LLMs as we have today, and likely forever after, are actually intelligent. Delaying this fight allows the current, stupid belief to the contrary to fester.
I don't think we'll win the majority of people over by debating the nuanced meaning of the word intelligence to a very precise degree.
I think we ought to do it by shaming them every time LLMs fail.
I think airstrike is joking. :)
I appreciate the charitable interpretation but I was not even joking this time! :)
Oh, in that case I agree strongly with William. I think the definition of intelligence a complete waste of time and the only real question is, can these tool solve problems for us? The answer is clearly yes, there are some problems they can.
The really interesting question is still a few years away when we ask if we humans have the right to turn these things on and off? ;)