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ACCount37yesterday at 9:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Oh, funny that you say that.

Modern LLMs show empirically that the "difference" is fuzzy at best. You can try to draw a distinction. You can try to draw the lines in the sand and define "true intelligence" in a way that would include humans but exclude "false intelligence" of Mythos 5. An exercise in vanity, in my eyes.

Or you can go with "any sufficiently advanced language generation is indistinguishable from intelligence" and drop the matter. My advice is to do exactly that.


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phailhausyesterday at 10:39 PM

We used to think that if a computer could play chess, it would be intelligent. Maybe back then they were also people saying "stop trying to draw lines, just admit it's intelligent!!" Good thing we didn't listen to them.

The act of distinguishing between human intelligence and LLMs is what allows us to figure out how to make it better. There are still some deep limitations, and to ignore them is a mistake. That doesn't take away from how crazy good they are.