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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Llms are fucking stupid. They regularly ignore directions, restrictions, hallucinate fake information, and spread misinformation because of unreliable training data (like hoovering down everything on the internet en masse).

I mean, how is that meaningfully different from average human intelligence?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Average human intelligence is not bound by strict machine logic quantifying language into mathematical algorithms, and is also sapient on top of sentient.

Machine learning LLMs are neither sentient nor sapient.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Those are distinct points from the one I made, which was about the characteristics listed. Sentience and sapience do not preclude a propensity to

regularly ignore directions, restrictions, hallucinate fake information, and spread misinformation because of unreliable training data

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How do you know that we are not bound by strict logic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Try talking to a MAGA Republican and find out for yourself.