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Any instance of LLMs being adduced as intelligence must be mercilessly ridiculed and mocked. No one impressed by slop should ever be permitted contribution to decisions affecting anyone not similarly cognitively impaired.
LLMs are only AI as Accelerators and Amplifiers of Ignorance and Incompetence, with vanishingly scarce examples of Insight.
This is kind of bullshit. It doesn't allow a corporate goon with an MBA to hire a virtual developer but it does amplify the work one can do. If you think it can't do anything you are pretty far off from reality.
Writing tests faster. Writing docs faster. Writing exploratory code faster even if you don't ultimately use the code. Splitting out general utility functions that are nice to have but which you wouldn't think. Refactoring.
Maybe if you are top 1% working on hard problems and mentoring it just slows you down meanwhile the bottom 50% has lots of work to do which it really does help with
I’m genuinely curious which part of your reply we should interpret as intelligence?
If anything, these are Iterations, which I’ll add to the list.
All of this is intelligence in my opinion. It may be far less intelligent than some human, but it still is (impressively, in my opinion) intelligent for a computer. Obviously, intelligence is very hard to define precisely. But LLMs can solve some nontrivial problems they have never seen before in that exact form and without existence of a clear algorithm to find a solution. And it even has some utility in many cases, as the comment describes. This is clearly intelligence. Even if it may not hold up to some promises made about them or people using it in inappropriate ways.
Btw., your original comment is very antidemocratic, as you demand to exclude groups of people from decisions, just because you don't like what they think!
The tokens burned to extrude this clearly qualify for a monstrous bulk discount.
Why would one’s exposure to raw sewage be decided democratically? I’d prefer experts with proven qualifications to be in control of such decisions, not a clown convulsing in the tank naked covered raw whip marks.
Your comments are an incoherent mess. One could actually do better with chatGPT
Democracy is supposed to ensure as good as possible that everyone's interests are considered. For example those of the people affected by sewage, which might not affect the experts you'd like to be in control. Also, after what you wrote, I don't trust you to judge who is an actual expert with good intentions to put in charge. And you likely don't trust me with this either. So we should probably have the same say. And if the experts in charge would at some point be (as they already somewhat are) the CEOs of AI companies, you would probably also like to have a say, just as everyone else.
AI usage for this comment: DeepL and the translator in DuckDuckGo for spelling and translation, e.g. of "sewage" and "convulsing" (what the heck is this last half sentence you wrote there, btw?)