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Well then, that settles it, this should never have happened.
I don’t think putting complex technical info in front of non technical people like this is a good idea. When it comes to LLMs, they cannot do any work that you yourself do not understand.
That goes for math, coding, health advice, etc.
If you don’t understand then you don’t know what they’re doing wrong. They’re helpful tools but only in this context.
This baffles me. How can anyone see AI function in the wild and not conclude 1) it has no conscience, 2) it's free to do whatever it's empowered to do if it wants and 3) at some level its behavior is pseudorandom and/or probabilistic? We're figuratively rolling dice with this stuff.
It’s incredible that it works, it’s incredible what just encoding language can do, but it is not a rational thinking system.
I don’t think most people care about the proverbial man behind the curtain, it talks like a human so it must be smart like a human.
Yikes. Have those people... talked to other people before?
Smart is a relative term lol.
A stupid human is still smart when compared to a jellyfish. That said, anybody who comes away from interactions with LLM's and thinks they're smart is only slightly more intelligent than a jellyfish.
Yes, and they were all as smart at humans. ;)
So mostly average but some absolute thickos too.