Daphne Preston-Kendal3d ago

I see we are entering the ‘humans make mistakes too’ era of LLM-AI apologetics

And I really wish I had written the review of Alan Blackwell’s ‘Moral Codes’ I had wanted to write when it was still timely, because yes, the point is that our expectations of machine intelligence are completely different from those of human intelligence

Show threadDaphne Preston-Kendal3d ago
Not enough is made of the fact that ‘ChatGPT passes the Turing test’ isn’t news because ELIZA already passed it, and *really* not enough is made of the fact that it should be bloody obvious that human intelligence is flawed in ways that we clearly do not want to recreate in a machine to the extent of being indistinguishable from a human
Show threadHanno Zulla3d ago

@dpk One of the sillier things I keep hearing is when people marvel how a chatbot is able to pass a "difficult exam", e.g. there was a flurry of breathless headlines about ChatGPT passing "the bar exam" as a sign of its advancing intelligence.

And lo and behold, every time it's a standardised exam that has been documented in countless books and online training material that were previously fed to the LLM.

Show threadBob Thomson
@hzulla @dpk ha yes, should be - chatbot passes exam by making it an open book exam and having perfect recall.
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