>> So we must fight to death to convince the world they are inferior.
That only makes sense if you assume they are superior. In which case, there isn't really anything to discuss because you've obviously already made up your mind and you will take anything anyone says as some desperate attempt to twist the truth for the sake of survival.
Which is what many people do on this kind of subject and that's why no more debate can be had on the internets about the value of LLMs and "AI".
It's also very annoying. It's like trying to talk to someone who keeps answering with jeers and sneers. It's childish and unproductive.
> That only makes sense if you assume they are superior. In which case, there isn't really anything to discuss because you've obviously already made up your mind and you will take anything anyone says as some desperate attempt to twist the truth for the sake of survival.
:-) I haven't decided anything of the sort. Alas, there is nothing divinely given in me. I'm made of the same matter than you and those computers, and if I can think, so can other arrangements of atoms and molecules. LLMs? Maybe not yet. But the issue is that we are getting closer. Should we dilute ourselves in our own supposed exceptionalism until it's too late and we stop being the masters of our fate?
The question is why would LLMs be able to think? Cars don't think, houses don't think, crock pots don't think. Those are all made of the same matter as us, who think, but that is not enough to assume something thinks. Animals think, humans think, but LLMs are not animals, and not human animals, so why would they think?
You don't have to be worried about the coming AI apocalypse to wonder about that. Personally, I just want to know how things work, and saying that something "thinks" when we don't know how everything else "thinks" in the first place is not satisfying my curiosity.
That only makes sense if you assume they are superior. In which case, there isn't really anything to discuss because you've obviously already made up your mind and you will take anything anyone says as some desperate attempt to twist the truth for the sake of survival.
Which is what many people do on this kind of subject and that's why no more debate can be had on the internets about the value of LLMs and "AI".
It's also very annoying. It's like trying to talk to someone who keeps answering with jeers and sneers. It's childish and unproductive.