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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

An LLM is roughly as smart as the corpus it is summarizing is accurate for the topic, because at their best they are good at creating natural language summarizers. Most of the main ones basically do an internet search and summarize the top couple of results, which means they are as good as the search engine backing them. Which is good enough for a lot of topics, but...not so much for the rest.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Ask an LLM what is affected by tariffs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow. Reading these comments so many people here really don't understand how LLMs work or what's actually going on at the frontier of the field.

I feel like there's going to be a cultural sonic boom, where when the shockwave finally catches up people are going to be woefully under prepared based on what they think they saw.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

LLMs are smart, they are just not intelligent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

only boomers and tech-unsavy people think that.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They are. Unless you can translate what I'm saying to any language I tell you to on the fly, I'm going to assume that anyone that tells me they are smarter than LLMs are lower on the spectrum than usual. Wikipedia and a lot of libraries are also more knowledgeable than me, who knew. If I am grateful for one thing, it is that I am not one of those people whose ego has to be jizzing everywhere, including their perception of things.

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