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- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 weeks ago:
But then how can you tell that it’s not an actual conscious being?
This is the whole plot of so many sci-fi novels.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bite.
How would you distinguish a sufficiently advanced word calculator from an actual intelligent, conscious agent?
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 weeks ago:
Let me grab all your downvotes by making counterpoints to this article.
I’m not saying that it’s not right to bash the fake hype that the likes of altman and alienberg are making with their outlandish claims that AGI is around the corner and that LLM are its precursor. I think that’s 100% spot on.
But the news article is trying to offer an opinion as if it’s a scientific truth, and this is not acceptable either.
The basis for the article is the supposed “cutting-edge research” that shows language is not the same as intelligence. The problem is that they’re referring to a publication from last year that is basically an op-ed, where the authors go over existing literature and theories to cement their view that language is a communication tool and not the foundation of thought.
The original authors do acknowledge that the growth in human intelligence is tightly related to language, yet assert that language is overall a manifestation of intelligence and not a prerequisite.
The nature of human intelligence is a much debated topic, and this doesn’t particularly add to the existing theories.
Even if we accept the authors’ views, then one might wonder if LLMs are the path to AGI. Obviously many lead researchers in AI think the same way - notably Prof LeCun is leaving Meta over this.
But the problem is that the Verge article then goes on to conclude the following:
an AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But that’s all it will be able to do. It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data and trained it upon — a dead-metaphor machine. And actual humans — thinking and reasoning and using language to communicate our thoughts to one another — will remain at the forefront of transforming our understanding of the world.
This conclusion is a non sequitur. It generalizes a specific point about the capacity of LLMs to evolve into true AGI or not, into an “AI dumb” catchall that ignores even the most basic evidence that they themselves give - like being able to “solve” go, or play chess in a way that no human can even comprehend - and, to top it off, conclude that “it will never be able to” in the future.
Looking back at the last 2 years, I don’t think anyone can predict what AI research breakthroughs might happen in the next 2, let alone “forever”.
- Comment on Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs 3 months ago:
Extremely informative post, how lucky that you took the time to write it.
- Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux 4 months ago:
He doesn’t 1) install, 2) approves any bowl, 3) or should he. He can refuse to make bidet seats any time, but prefers wașiki seats instead.
He directly provides releases for Windows x64/ARM64, Linux x86_64/ARM32/ARM64 (in AppImage format), and macOS. He also explicitly forbids modifications, and since he considers “pre-configured settings” to be modifications, and this is basically barring any other distribution.
So while ultimately you’re right in that he doesn’t install it himself, he provides a super-simple “do it yourself” kit for people who live in apartments, while making anyone else who lives in a house have to assemble it from a million separate pieces themselves.
Note that I’m sympathetic, and I don’t know what the solution here is, but hopefully everyone figures it out…
- Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux 4 months ago:
My take on a better analogy:
The bidet maker is pissed because people complain to him that their bidet is leaking or has cracks. He’s annoyed at a distribution/installation company because they fumbled, so he’ll handle installation himself but only to the houses he approves.
Oh, and the bidets are free and nobody gets paid a cent.
- Comment on Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try! 5 months ago:
I feel you, I’ve spent so long grinding drivers licenses and playing absurd cups like that. Unfortunately not many options, and even Motorsport was… meh.
Project Cars 2 is a frequent recommendation, but it’s delisted. Then there’s mods for other games, like automobilista 2, but not official. I wouldn’t expect much from AC Evo either, with how the launch was basically online-mandated and the series not having much of career mode…
- Comment on Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try! 5 months ago:
I appreciate the post and the recommendations, but none of these games scratch the same itch that Forza Motorsport is meant to scratch.
The alternatives are the competitors like ACC, Gran Turismo 7 or iRacing (possibly race room) - games focused on the realism and online competition.
- Comment on Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1 5 months ago:
Fake news. Remember, TACO.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 5 months ago:
Exactly my question. More often than not, I’d wager on AI making the right call instead of the arrogant, power tripping blabbering dimwit who got to CEO because he’s got absolutely no scruples or morals and absolutely zero shame and will sacrifice anything for his goal of hoarding more wealth.
It probably has less hallucinations.
- Comment on small upgrade to my steam deck 11 months ago:
Yeah but at what point does it just become a pc with a controller…
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 1 year ago:
If you have to rile the audience to be funny, you’re not funny.
But there is a “gray option” here. I read this as “you can rile up the audience and be funny, just not if that’s the only thing you do”, in context with the previous point that this sort of humour is overused and loosing its impact.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 2 years ago:
This isn’t the reason, it doesn’t matter if Hamas accuses them or not.
They’re considered hostages because Hamas wants to release them in exchange for something.
Israel imprisons Palestinian as a punishment or to achieve specific goals that are not met by releasing them (like preventing political prisoners from engaging with society).
I don’t think either term is morally superior to the other, but they do have some different connotations…