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Heard someone at the library say AI is just 'fancy autocomplete' and it got me thinking...
I was sitting near a guy explaining to his friend how LLMs work, and he said they are basically just really smart word guessers. At first I was annoyed, but the more I think about it, the more I wonder if we oversell what these things can actually do. Like, I've been playing with a local model for a week now trying to get it to write a simple poem without mixing up metaphors, and it keeps failing. Is there a point where we stop calling it intelligence and just call it a really good calculator for words? Anyone else run into limits that made them rethink the hype?
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danielowens1d ago
@lisas78 that 'word math' thing really hits home when you realize even us humans can't agree what intelligence even is.
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david_walker9723h ago
Exactly what did the trick for me @danielowens was just using smaller words.
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