The problem wasn’t LLMs at the core. It was building something that tricked primitive parts of human brains into anthropomorphism so effectively. Everyone attributes way more capability to AI than it really has because by its nature it can sound human through mimicry. It’s a great data science tool.
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@hacks4pancakes Paraphrasing you, "the trick wasn't in making computers think, it was in stopping humans from realising the computers weren't thinking".
@hacks4pancakes it's always instructive to remember the pet rock when people talk about LLMs thinking
@hacks4pancakes It's funny to me that the Turing Test turned out to be the lowest bar imaginable.
@hacks4pancakes yes, it makes us far more forgiving to a probabilistic engine that gets things more wrong than tech we have used since personal computing was a thing.
We then ask it nicely why it got things wrong and could it please not get things wrong next time.