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  • Deebster@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 month ago

    Hmm, I think they’re close enough to be able to say a neural network is modelled on how a brain works - it’s not the same, but then you reach the other side of the semantics coin (like the “can a submarine swim” question).

    The plasticity part is an interesting point, and I’d need to research that to respond properly. I don’t know, for example, if they freeze the model because otherwise input would ruin it (internet teaching them to be sweaty racists, for example), or because it’s so expensive/slow to train, or high error rates, or it’s impossible, etc.

    When talking to laymen I’ve explained LLMs as a glorified text autocomplete, but there’s some discussion on the boundary of science and philosophy that’s asking is intelligence a side effect of being able to predict better.


  • Deebster@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    Humans invent stuff (without realising) it to, so I don’t think that’s enough to disqualify something from being intelligent.

    The interesting question is how much of this is due to the training goal basically being “a sufficiently convincing response to satisfy a person” (pretty much the same as on social media) and how much of it is a fundamental flaw in the whole idea.


  • Deebster@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 month ago

    I agree to your broad point, but absolutely not in this case. Large Language Models are 100% AI, they’re fairly cutting edge in the field, they’re based on how human brains work, and even a few of the computer scientists working on them have wondered if this is genuine intelligence.

    On the spectrum of scripted behaviour in Doom up to sci-fi depictions of sentient silicon-based minds, I think we’re past the halfway point.







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  • Deebster@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    5 months ago

    4 out of 4, which seems a slightly unintuitive scale

    Finally, there’s a level 4 sting, which is as bad as it can get. Schmidt knows of only three critters capable of inflicting level-4 suffering: the warrior wasp (Synoeca septentrionalis), a two-and-a-half-inch-long black bug found in the tropics; the bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), also tropical; and the tarantula hawk (genus Pepsis), two inches long, which Schmidt can find in his yard in Tucson.

    The Straight Dope

    btw, this image is a legit snippet from the wikipedia page Schmidt sting pain index although it doesn’t make clear that Schmidt didn’t get stung on purpose for science.




  • Deebster@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneshopping rule theory
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    6 months ago

    You’re allowed not to know! It’s just that since you’d got Picard I thought you’d know the rest since they’re from the same show (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

    Seeing as I’ve just discovered you can use tables on Lemmy, I’ll give you a proper answer:

    Actor Character
    Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard
    Jonathan Frakes William Riker
    Brent Spiner Data
    Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher
    Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi
    LeVar Burton Geordi La Forge
    Michael Dorn Worf
    Denise Crosby Tasha Yar
    Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher
    Colm Meaney Miles O’Brien
    Diana Muldaur Katherine Pulaski
    Dwight Schultz Reginald Barclay
    Michelle Forbes Ro Laren
    Majel Barrett Lwaxana Troi
    Brian Bonsall Alexander Rozhenko