[_1tem]

I would add a fifth fallacy: assuming what we humans do can be reduced to “intelligence”. We are actually very irrational. Humans are driven strongly by Will, Desire, Love, Faith, and many other irrational traits. Has an LLM ever demonstrated irrational love? Or sexual desire? How can it possibly do what humans do without these?

[peterashford]

Yeah I think that's an important dimension. David Hume said that there was no action without passion and I think that's a key difference with AIs. They sit there passive until we interact with them. They dont want anything, they dont have goals, desires, motivations. The emotional part of the human psyche does a lot of work - we aren't just calculating sums

[ehnto]

The idea that any of those attributes could arise out of an LLM would be surprising to say the least. They do not maintain a continuum of thought for which those things could exist within. In the case of humans, those things are not just thought anyway, they are a complex mix of chemical signals, physical signals and thoughts, memories etc. So complex we barely understand it, even though we live it and have studied it for centuries.

[peterashford]

I don't think anyone was suggesting that any of those things were possible in an LLM.