Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@marshray @futurebird @AT1ST
Are you one of those people who believe you're the only truly sapient being and everyone else is an unaware "NPC" just going through the motions of life to trick you or something?

To me it defeats the point of communication, which is to share our thoughts and impressions and ideas with one another. A thing that can't think can only show you a distorted reflection of yourself in the slurry coming out of the chute.

It's just an extremely fancy version of the markov chain bots we used to play with on IRC because sometimes it would spit out a funny line, but with massive data centers of power behind it instead of some spare cycles on a desktop.

Treating these things like they're anything approaching thinking is simply marketing bullshit.

@marshray
@futurebird @AT1ST

It's the chinese room problem. Yeah maybe it can generate text that sounds good, but it doesn't know what it's saying in any real sense. And it doesn't know true from false, those are irrelevant concepts to an LLM as it is just using very large statistics to string words together in a way that's statistically plausible.

The machine is fed a shitpost about gluing the cheese on your pizza, now that's an equally valid response for it to give as any real answer bc it has ingested this text.

Chinese room - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

@futurebird

@whknott yep. That's why lice are so permethrin resistant nowadays and many fleas are immune to fipronil.

@futurebird @whknott and the "pest control" company will sign you up for regular spraying!

@futurebird do you have a link to the list?