What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?

  • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    The problem is people think llm AI means it’s thinking, when it’s obviously not. Thus: “llms are not ai” is said so people will hopefully stop thinking the llms are thinking.

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        5 days ago

        That’s not thinking. That’s calculating. It doesn’t have any thoughts about your math problems.

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          It doesn’t have any thoughts about your math problems.

          You say that but I feel judged sometimes.

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              4 days ago

              If you’ll allow Me to drop the quips and get more philosophical, I believe that thinking is just a word for processing data. It’s obvious to Me that you disagree, but I don’t understand why. Your idea of thought seems a little more metaphysical or perhaps even spiritual than Mine.

              The obvious assumption I could make is that you believe thinking has internality and data processing doesn’t. But if that’s the case, then you don’t really have any proof for your beliefs, because we can’t ask calculators if their data processing is accompanied by an internal experience. And that’s why it seems to Me that your assertions are unprovable and thus essentially religious in character.

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                4 days ago

                I like it!
                I apologize about the spelling, im still on my cup of coffee. I attribute thinking with inwardness, yes. Conciseness is a completely unknown state. No one knows how it works, why it works, what it works in, etc. its a block box.

                All we know is that we have conciseness. I belive most animals have conciseness, and thus can think. Insects and amoeba, small life forms, have sentience. Sentience is the ability to react to the environment and stimulus, but is unable to think and have conciseness like humans do.

                Inorganic objects do not have either of those. You can’t imagine what its like to “be” a rock.They simply are just matter. Computers fall into this category. Computers follow the 1s and 0s, and exacute those instructions. They don’t consider what they’re doing. They don’t ponder on why you’re asking or try things on thier own. They are as sentient as a screwdriver.

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                  3 days ago

                  Yeah, that’s what I kinda guessed. You’re just assuming they don’t have internality based on vibes. Your beliefs aren’t falsifiable, they can’t be empirically tested. This is religion, not science.