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inertetoday at 2:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe LLMs can't, but another form of AI will. I hope nobody is interpreting this as "nothing will never be as good as us".

I see similar thinking in stories of how humanity got here. Religion has thousands of years adapting to this problem, every time we explain something, the goal post moves. Catholics today accept evolution (or least the church does), but it is the "jump" from monkeys to humans where God is the only explanation.

Just 5 years ago we didn't have a technology that knows more about everything than even most experts. We keep coming up with benchmark after benchmark and LLM/AI keeps destroying them. Now we've moved the benchmark to "the jump". Again, maybe it's LLMs or the way we currently do them that can't do this, but eventually something will.


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kskdkwkdjwtoday at 3:42 PM

> Just 5 years ago we didn't have a technology that knows more about everything than even most experts.

And we still don’t. What we have are simply very advanced search results aggregators with delusions of personality. Just because your fridge says “I” doesn’t mean it is a person.