Think of a person with the most average intelligence and realize that 50% of people are dumber than that.

These people vote. These people think billionaires are their friends and will save them. Gods help us.

looking at americas voting results, theyre probably right

Reminds me of that George Carlin joke: Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

So half of people are dumb enough to think autocomplete with a PR team is smarter than they are... or they're dumb enough to be correct.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

And you know what? The people who believe that are right.

Note that that’s not a commentary on the capabilities of LLMs.

Am American.

....this is not the flex that the article writer seems to think it is.

I'm 100% certain that LLMs are smarter than half of Americans. What I'm not so sure about is that the people with the insight to admit being dumber than an LLM are the ones who really are.

It’s like asking if you think a calculator is smarter than you.

moron opens encyclopedia "Wow, this book is smart."

They're right. AI is smarter than them.

LLMs are made to mimic how we speak, and some can even pass the Turing test, so I'm not surprised that people who don't know better think of these LLMs as conscious in some way or another.

It's not a necessarily a fault on those people, it's a fault on how LLMs are purposefully misadvertised to the masses

"Half of LLM users " beleive this. Which is not to say that people who understand how flawed LLMs are, or what their actual function is, do not use LLMs and therefore arent i cluded in this statistic?
This is kinda like saying '60% of people who pay for their daily horoscope beleive it is an accurate prediction'.

"Nearly half" of US citizens are right, because about 75% of the US population is functionally or clinically illiterate.

Remember that 54% of adults in American cannot read beyond a 6th grade level, with 21% being fully illiterate.

I had to tell a bunch of librarians that LLMs are literally language models made to mimic language patterns, and are not made to be factually correct. They understood it when I put it that way, but librarians are supposed to be "information professionals". If they, as a slightly better trained subset of the general public, don't know that, the general public has no hope of knowing that.

The average literacy level is around that of a sixth grader.

This tracks

Next you'll tell me half the population has below average intelligence.

Not really endorsing LLMs, but some people...

I know enough people for whom that's true.

That is the problem with US adults. Half of them probably is dumber than AI.....

LLMs are smart in the way someone is smart who has read all the books and knows all of them but has never left the house. Basically all theory and no street smarts.

I believe LLMs are smarter than half of US adults

If we are talking about American adults, I guess they might be right.

Well, if somebody thinks this, it's kind of true isn't it?

Nearly half of U.S. adults

Half of LLM users (49%)

No, about a quarter of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. Only about half of adults are LLM users, and only about half of those users think that.

LLMs don't even think. Four year olds are more coherent. Given the state of politics, the people thinking LLMs are smarter than them are probably correct.

That's called a self-proving statement.

You say this like this is wrong.

Think of a question that you would ask an average person and then think of what the LLM would respond with. The vast majority of the time the llm would be more correct than most people.

Hallucination comes off as confidence. Very human like behavior tbh.

LLM is proof that even if you're extremely stupid, having access to information can still make you sound smart.

If I think of what causes the average person to consider another to be “smart,” like quickly answering a question about almost any subject, giving lots of detail, and most importantly saying it with confidence and authority, LLMs are great at that shit!

They might be bad reasons to consider a person or thing “smart,” but I can’t say I’m surprised by the results. People can be tricked by a computer for the same reasons they can be tricked by a human.

They're right