We knew, but the proof is nice.
"Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves"
The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything.
https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/status/2041243558833987600#m
@davidaugust did you see the documentary about "Project Nim", the monkey who got adopted and was supposed to be speaking sign language?
there have been other monkeys showing the same effect of this highly sophisticated begging where the monkeys guess the expected behavior but do not understand
they answer with some sign but they do not understand that there was a question nor that they do give an answer
they see human behavior and from pattern matching they do what they think is appropriate for that moment because it had served them well in the past
its hard for me to explain but the documentary did a good job in preparing me for the sophistcated begging of llms
i wanted it to be true to communicate with monkeys but the documentary gave me a werner herzog umderstanding of the beauty of standing apart, watching each other over a unbridgeable chasm
@bladecoder @drifthood excellent point. It does feel to me vaguely like the mechanical turk too: a machine passed off as machine with a person inside able to give the “machine” human-like skills and abilities.
There is a fiction inside all of them.
@davidaugust @bladecoder you are right,
there is lots of reporting from 404 media for example that its nigerians who do a lot of the chatbotting
in the interview the nigerian explains how its not possible for the workers to know if they are training a bot or if they are chatting with a human on the other side
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