Wtf is an llm
It's probably true too.
No one has asked so I am going to ask:
What is Elon University and why should I trust them?
I know enough people for whom that's true.
There’s a lot of ignorant people out there so yeah, technically LLM is smarter than most people.
I don't think a single human who knows as much as chatgpt does exists. Does that mean chatgpt is smarter then everyone? No. Obviously not based on what we've seen so far. But the amount of information available to these LLMs is incredible and can be very useful. Like a library contains a lot of useful information but isn't intelligent itself.
That's pretty weak reasoning, by your own words, it isn't intellignt, it doesnt know anything.
By that logic wikipedia is also smarter than any human because it has lot of knowledge.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is true outside the US as well. People that actually (have to) work with the stuff usually quickly learn, that its only good at a few things, but if you just hear about it in the (pop-, non-techie-)media (including YT and such), you might be deceived into thinking Skynet is just a few years away.
It's a one trick pony.
That trick also happens to be a really neat trick that can make people think it's a swiss army knife instead of a shovel.
Two things can be true at once! Though I suppose it depends on what you define as “a few.”
I suppose some of that comes down to the personal understanding of what "smart" is.
I guess you could call some person, that doesn't understand a topic, but still manages to sound reasonable when talking about it, and might even convince people that they actually have a deep understanding of that topic, "smart", in a kind of "smart imposter".
Just a thought, perhaps instead of considering the mental and educational state of the people without power to significantly affect this state, we should focus on the people who have power.
For example, why don't LLM providers explicitly and loudly state, or require acknowledgement, that their products are just imitating human thought and make significant mistakes regularly, and therefore should be used with plenty of caution?
It's a rhetorical question, we know why, and I think we should focus on that, not on its effects. It's also much cheaper and easier to do than refill years of quality education in individuals heads.
The funny thing about this scenario is by simply thinking that’s true, it actually becomes true.
Aside from the unfortunate name of the university, I think that part of why LLMs may be perceived as smart or 'smarter' is because they are very articulate and, unless prompted otherwise, use proper spelling and grammar, and tend to structure their sentences logically.
Which 'smart' humans may not do, out of haste or contextual adaptation.
LLMs are smart, they are just not intelligent
I wasn't sure from the title if it was "Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than [the US adults] are." or "Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than [the LLMs actually] are." It's the former, although you could probably argue the latter is true too.
Either way, I'm not surprised that people rate LLMs intelligence highly. They obviously have limited scope in what they can do, and hallucinating false info is a serious issue, but you can ask them a lot of questions that your typical person couldn't answer and get a decent answer. I feel like they're generally good at meeting what people's expectations are of a "smart person", even if they have major shortcomings in other areas.
What that overwhelming, uncritical, capitalist propaganda do...
Maybe if the adults actually didn't use the LLMs so much this wouldn't be the case.
Considering the amount of people that either voted trump or not voted at all, I'd say that there's a portion of americans lying.
At least half of US adults think that they themselves are smarter than they actually are, so this tracks.
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