Okay but have you considered that if we just reduce human intelligence enough, we can still maybe get these things equivalent to human level intelligence, or slightly above?
We have the technology.
Also literally all the resources in the world.
outhouseperilous
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Hey now, that's unfair and queerphobic.
These models are from 1950, with juiced up data sets. Alan turing personally sid a lot of work on them, before he cracked the math and figured out they were shit and would always be shit.
Also, the extremely post-cyberpunk posthumans, and each member of the crew is a different extremely capable kind of fucked up model of what we might become, with the protagonist personifying the genre of horror that it is, while still being occasionally hilarious.
Despite being fundamentally a cosmic horror novel, and relentlessly math-in-the-back-of-the-book hard scifi it does what all the best cyberpunk does and shamelessly flirts with the supernatural at every opportunity. The sequel doubles down on this, and while not quite as good overall (still exceptionally good, but harder to follow) each of the characters explores a novel and sweet+sad+horrifying kind of love.
So, what is 'understanding'?
If you need help, you can look at marx for an answer that still mostly holds up, if your server is an indication of your reading habbits.
Ah! But you can skip all that messy biology abd stuff i don't understand that's probably not important, abd just think of it as a classical computer running an x86 architecture, and checkmate, liberal my argument owns you now!
The most convincing arguments that llms are like humans aren't that llm's are good, but that humans are just unrefrigerated meat and personhood is a delusion.
Its not a fucking riddle, it's a koan/thought experiment.
It's questioning what 'communication' fundamentally is, and what knowledge fundamentally is.
It's not even the first thing to do this. Military theory was cracking away at the 'communication' thing a century before, and the nature of knowledge has discourse going back thousands of years.
Like literally all of them?
Maybe.
Hey, good news about the movie...
It doesn't know things.
It's a statistical model. It cannot synthesize information or problem solve, only show you a rough average of it's library of inputs graphed by proximity to your input.
Yes but then we built a weapon with with to murder truth, and with it meaning, so everything is just vibesy meaning-mush now. And you're a big dumb meanie for hating the thing that saved ys from having/being able to know things. Meanie.