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[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

So would you describe "statistically likely" to be the same as "intelligent"?

[-] StopTech@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Statistically likely to...what? I don't understand what you're trying to say.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

A large language model is giving you the statistically most likely words to your prompt, weighted by prettymuch everything written online. You would describe that as "intelligent"?

[-] StopTech@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Intelligence is a description of capability, not the means by which the capability is achieved. So if the output looks intelligent then the process is intelligent regardless of how it works. The difference between natural and artificial intelligence is how the intelligence is achieved - what you're describing doesn't match any intelligence found in nature so if it produces intelligent output then it's artificially intelligent.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

So if the output looks intelligent then the process is intelligent regardless of how it works

Most every other computer program made will also meet this definition. Hell, this definition is so loose, you can use it to describe evolution as an intelligent process.

What if I push it one step further back the chain? In so far as these programs are recognizably intelligent, it is only because conscious people put a lot of time and work into making them. Into setting up the systems that statistically weighed the models. The model is intelligent, but it's not artificially so. It's just an expression of plain old human intelligence, obfuscated through sci-fi terminology.

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