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by s1mplicissimus 539 days ago
I haven't seen "intelligent" used as "economically useful" anywhere outside the AI hype bubble. The most charitable interpretation I can think of is lack of understanding of the common usage of the word, the most realistic one is intentionally muddying terminology so one cannot be called a liar. Are LLMs helpful tools for some tasks like rough translations, voice2text etc? Sure. Does it resemble what humans call intelligence? I'd yet have to see an example of that. The suggested experiment is a great idea and would sway my opinion drastically (given all the training data, model config, prompts & answers are public and reproducible of course, we don't want any chance of marketing BS to taint the results, do we). I'll be honest though, I'm not going to hold my breath for that experiment to succeed with the LLM technology...

edit: lol downvoted for calling out shilling i guess