But what does it mean to behave intelligently? Cleary it’s not enough to simply have the ability to string together coherent sentences, regardless of complexity, because I’d say the current crop of LLMs has solved that one quite well. Yet their behavior clearly isn’t all that intelligent, because they will often either misinterpret the question or even make up complete nonsense. And perhaps that’s still good enough in order to fool over half of the population, which might be good enough to prove “intelligence” in a statistical sense, but all you gotta do is try to have a conversation that involves feelings or requires coming up with a genuine insight in order to see that you’re just talking to a machine after all.
Basically, current LLMs kinda feel like you’re talking to an intelligent but extremely autistic human being that is incapable or afraid to take any sort of moral or emotional position at all.
But what does it mean to behave intelligently? Cleary it’s not enough to simply have the ability to string together coherent sentences, regardless of complexity, because I’d say the current crop of LLMs has solved that one quite well. Yet their behavior clearly isn’t all that intelligent, because they will often either misinterpret the question or even make up complete nonsense. And perhaps that’s still good enough in order to fool over half of the population, which might be good enough to prove “intelligence” in a statistical sense, but all you gotta do is try to have a conversation that involves feelings or requires coming up with a genuine insight in order to see that you’re just talking to a machine after all.
Basically, current LLMs kinda feel like you’re talking to an intelligent but extremely autistic human being that is incapable or afraid to take any sort of moral or emotional position at all.