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by CamperBob2 6 days ago
So, you're saying that it was somebody on Reddit who disproved the conjecture, and not a "stochastic parrot?"
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cj 6 days ago
You asked for my parrot's take, not how to disprove a conjecture.

Edit: And not a great example to use to prove human-ness considering humans didn't disprove the conjecture?

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CamperBob2 6 days ago
Parrot analogies for frontier AI are so stupid that they prove human-ness by dint of being a mistake no thinking entity would make.
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cj 6 days ago
Perhaps you can answer this for me.

Why do some people get very defensive when you suggest AI isn’t comparable to humans?

Like, where is it coming from?

Why do people seem to want to ascribe human traits on the tech? It’s just technology. Why do we need to draw parallels to biology? Is it actually helpful? My position is “no” because the parallels only seem similar, but fundamentally aren’t.

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CamperBob2 6 days ago
Why do some people get very defensive when you suggest AI isn’t comparable to humans?

But you didn't do that, did you? You rattled off a goofy cliché about parrots that we've all heard a hundred times before. If that's all you have to contribute to the conversation, go contribute it somewhere else.

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