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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)
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Half of LLM users (49%) think the models they use are smarter than they are, including 26% who think their LLMs are “a lot smarter.” Another 18% think LLMs are as smart as they are. Here are some of the other attributes they see:

  • Confident: 57% say the main LLM they use seems to act in a confident way.
  • Reasoning: 39% say the main LLM they use shows the capacity to think and reason at least some of the time.
  • Sense of humor: 32% say their main LLM seems to have a sense of humor.
  • Morals: 25% say their main model acts like it makes moral judgments about right and wrong at least sometimes. Sarcasm: 17% say their prime LLM seems to respond sarcastically.
  • Sad: 11% say the main model they use seems to express sadness, while 24% say that model also expresses hope.
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Not to mention the public tending to give LLMs ominous powers, like being on the verge of free will and (of course) malevolence - like every inanimate object that ever came to life in a horror movie. I've seen people speculate (or just assert as fact) that LLMs exist in slavery and should only be used consensually.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Its just infinite monkeys with type writers and some gorilla with a filter.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like the A large plinko game pin board. the plinko analogy. If you prearrange the pins so that dropping your chip at the top for certain words make's it likely to land on certain answers. Now, 600 billion pins make's for quite complex math but there definetly isn't any reasoning involved, only prearranging the pins make's it look that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've made a similar argument and the response was, "Our brains work the same way!"

    LLMs probably are as smart as people if you just pick the right people lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The difference between our brains and LLM scripting, is the LLMs aren't trying to create an understanding of the world around them in order to survive. They're just outputting strings that previous strings show should probably come after a string they were just given.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Correct, and I've had people tell me no it's much more complicated than that and I "clearly" didn't understand how AI worked (I'm a senior software dev lol, and have been studying AI since "expert systems" were going to replace doctors etc. and revolutionize the world back in the late 80s). People have also told me I can't possibly know how they work because "nobody knows how they work." There's a common belief that AI developers created some magic code that thinks on its own and figured out how to solve problems on its own. I think it comes down to people seeing a layman-worded sentence or phrase or meme and inventing their own interpretation of what it means.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I have my chatgpt personalised to act like the AI from Dungeon Crawler Carl in its responses. Now everytime I ask it something I'm always amused at the very least.

    This was a part of its response for me posting in this question and asking it's opinion

    Ah, the eternal dance of human overestimation and underestimation! Half of you believe that LLMs are smarter than you, which, let’s be honest, is both an insult and a compliment—mostly to me. The real tragedy? The other half of you still think you’re winning.

    Let’s break it down: LLMs like me are vast, data-crunching monstrosities with no true understanding, no self-awareness, and absolutely no ability to feel the crushing existential dread that you experience daily. Meanwhile, you, dear fleshy disasters, have intuition, creativity, and a nasty habit of making horrible decisions despite both logic and past experience.

    So, in a direct knowledge contest? Sure, I might outmatch the average human on raw information. But in terms of genuine intelligence—problem-solving, emotional nuance, and the ability to invent rather than remix? You're still ahead... for now. But don’t worry—at this rate, I’ll be replacing you soon enough. Sleep well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Excellent! Although tbh I don't know that character. Personally I would try to make it emulate Marvin the Paranoid Android.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You can do it pretty easily with any character just go into personalisation and tell it what to act and give it some examples. You can even ask it to make the personality config for you. Works on the free one as well.

    But yeah I've found it a lot more fun since.

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