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JsonDemWitOstertoday at 8:21 AM1 replyview on HN

> I guess it is a sign we are re-evaluating what makes humans special.

Always has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Tangentially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox


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cauchtoday at 8:54 AM

While we should be careful of a bias, it is also a good practice in the scientific method to review definitions that may have been not precise enough.

For example, initially, a "planet" was just a big body in space. Then when people started to see more and more nuances, the definition just refined, and some objects stopped being called "planet".

I would not be surprised if there is a bias that pushes some people to redefine "intelligence" away from machine, but I would not be surprised if there is a bias that pushes some people to ignore newly discovered nuance and put into the same "intelligence" bag things that are in fact very different. I personally can see how LLM are not really "intelligent", and I don't think it is a good idea to say: well, yesterday we said the minimum criteria is X, now that we noticed that X can be reached without really doing the real thing, let's just ignore that and pretend it is the same thing.

(: the biggest clue for me is to use an early model, and see that it sometimes looks very intelligent, and then sometimes you can see that it gets it wrong in a way that shows that it never "understood" it at all. Newer models are better, but because it is an iteration on the same bases, the increase of performances cannot really due to replacing the things that "looked smart by aren't" by "real smart", but more replacing the things that "don't look smart" by "look smart by aren't")

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