@b_rain I've had to explain that LLMs are nothing at all like search engines to friends who are highly educated and, overall, likely smarter and more capable of complex thought than myself.

They're just not computer science educated, and understand computers as good at numbers and large database retrievals.

Which is the exact opposite of #LLMs.

Society isn't ready for them at all.

@larsmb @b_rain They're not smarter and more capable of complex thought than you if they get this wrong.

They've failed to pass a very very low bar for intelligence.

@larsmb @b_rain And indeed lots of supposedly "highly educated" people in lots of specialized fields have this very basic lack of intelligence.

For example there are tons of doctors who take claims by drug companies at face value rather than applying a critical lens, looking for genuinely independent studies, or applying their own understanding (that they theoretically needed to graduate, but probably never had) of the relevant mechanisms of action.

@dalias @b_rain No. This is insulting. I don't take kindly to insults to my friends, so kindly: don't.

They're not experts in tech. They're being willfully misled about the capabilities and functions.

They all understood it when explained, but the systems are not always explained, because then they couldn't be sold.

The term for "one can't spend time to understand everything and must rely on and trust others at some point" is not "unintelligent" but "human".