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by karpierz 1142 days ago
Where did you get that the LLM was as _intelligent_ as a human?

All we've shown is that LLMs are as useful for parsing legal text as the average human. Which is to say, not.

A dog is also as useful for parsing legal texts as the average human. So is a rock.
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p1esk 1142 days ago
Where did you get that the LLM was as _intelligent_ as a human?

First hand experience -I’ve been using it daily for the past two months.

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karpierz 1142 days ago
Ah, if that's what you mean then there are plenty of intelligent systems out there.

I've used Google search for decades and it's been able to answer questions better than humans ever could. Same for Google Maps, though arguably they're the same system at this point. My calculator is far more intelligent than any human I've met, at least when it comes to adding large numbers. My compiler can detect even the slightest syntax error with impeccable accuracy. Microsoft word has an incredible vocabulary. Wikipedia knows more historical events than any human dead or alive. And so on.

Shit, users thought Eliza was intelligent in the 60s.

If what you really mean is that LLMs are cool and useful, then sure. Just say that instead of couching it in some vague claim of intelligence.

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p1esk 1142 days ago
No, what I meant was GPT-4 is more intelligent than most humans I interact with on a daily basis. In the fullest meaning of that word.
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karpierz 1142 days ago
There are a lot of different ways to interpret the word intelligent, so let me rephrase:

When you say "intelligent", what do you mean exactly?

What might help is describing what specific interactions give you the impression that GPT-4 is intelligent?

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p1esk 1141 days ago
When I call GPT-4 intelligent I use the word in the same sense as if I met a very smart person (smarter than me), and interacted with them for some time. It's as simple as that.

My interactions with GPT-4 include quite a wide range of questions: "how to talk to my kid in this specific situation", "what could have happened if Germany had won WW2", "what does this code do", "here's an idea for a research paper, let's brainstorm the details and implementation". I can also discuss with it anything that's been written in this thread and I'm sure it would provide intelligent responses (I haven't, btw).

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