> One computer scientist speculated that his LLM had attained sentience.
> How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, and that was that.
Oh, come on now. This is referring to Blake Lemoine, and while I doubt his conclusions, he wasn't being as simplistic as all that. He's not completely stupid.
It's nice to see someone else that recognizes that the Emperor is naked. I find it somewhat disturbing how many people seem to fall for the Eliza-effect illusion that LLMs are thinking.
> LLMs operate in the plane of words, not in the world of physical phenomena that science investigates. They don’t reason, synthesize evidence, or draw upon the previous literature. They can generate text that looks like a paper but mistaking this for science is a cargo-cult fallacy.
> We have devoted a large part of our research and teaching careers to studying the ways in which information technology facilitates the spread of misinformation and disinformation through traditional and social media
Apparently they did not have enough time to study how to effectively convey that information.
This is the funniest, most useless "science" site I've seen.
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See what they did there ?
> How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, and that was that.
Oh, come on now. This is referring to Blake Lemoine, and while I doubt his conclusions, he wasn't being as simplistic as all that. He's not completely stupid.
> LLMs operate in the plane of words, not in the world of physical phenomena that science investigates. They don’t reason, synthesize evidence, or draw upon the previous literature. They can generate text that looks like a paper but mistaking this for science is a cargo-cult fallacy.
This is clearly wrong
Feb 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989320
Apparently they did not have enough time to study how to effectively convey that information.
This is the funniest, most useless "science" site I've seen.