alt Hacker News> but that optimization process forces it to learn knowledge domains and reasoning.
Don't believe the PR bull. It is just a stochastic parrot.
> something exhibiting surprising behaviors.
Some people are surprised by real parrots too.
> Still, it is very interesting to see Claude (seemingly) very honestly and objectively engage with these questions
Give the same question to Google search and click the first result. It's cheaper!
I dunno, I don't think the models are fully capable yet, but they are still shockingly good, especially recently. A real parrot is worthy of some consideration, not zero, though some of that is attributable to the fact that it is alive.
The funny thing is if I go to google and click the first result, it shows me an AI preview anyway. No winning. ;) (Though I would prefer if the Earth was not cooked alive.)