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Remember that 54% of adults in American cannot read beyond a 6th grade level, with 21% being fully illiterate.
21%
What the fuck
I will do you one better, HOW THE FUCK?
Our education system in the USA is so bad. 😔
Good thing we nuked the Dept of Ed
No, 21% struggle with basic literacy skills. They're illiterate, but not fully illiterate.
People can improve literacy in adulthood if they try.
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.
to be fair they're American and they're LLM users, so for a selected group like that odds are they really are as stupid as LLMs.
moron opens encyclopedia "Wow, this book is smart."
If it's so smart, why is it just laying around on a bookshelf and not working a job to pay rent?
Next you'll tell me half the population has below average intelligence.
Not really endorsing LLMs, but some people...
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.
And you know what? The people who believe that are right.
Note that that’s not a commentary on the capabilities of LLMs.
It's sad, but the old saying from George Carlin something along the lines of, "just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that 50% are even worse..."
If you don't have a good idea of how LLM's work, then they'll seem smart.
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.
Half of all voters voted for Trump. So an LLM might be smarter than them. Even a bag of pea gravel might be.
As far as I can tell from the article, the definition of "smarter" was left to the respondents, and "answers as if it knows many things that I don't know" is certainly a reasonable definition -- even if you understand that, technically speaking, an LLM doesn't know anything.
As an example, I used ChatGPT just now to help me compose this post, and the answer it gave me seemed pretty "smart":
what's a good word to describe the people in a poll who answer the questions? I didn't want to use "subjects" because that could get confused with the topics covered in the poll.
"Respondents" is a good choice. It clearly refers to the people answering the questions without ambiguity.
The poll is interesting for the other stats it provides, but all the snark about these people being dumber than LLMs is just silly.
oh my god 49% of LLM users are pathologically stupid.
and still wrong.
Still better than reddit users...
where do you think these idiots spend their time?
I try not to think about them, honestly. (งツ)ว
you're a healthier person than I.
For anyone wondering.
I'm starting to think an article referring to LLM as AI is s red flag, while them referring to them as LLM is a green flag.
Always has been
The average literacy level is around that of a sixth grader.
This tracks
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.
So LLMs are confident you say. Like a very confident man. A confidence man. A conman.
i guess the 90% marketing (re: linus torvalds) is working
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.
"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'.
That is the problem with US adults. Half of them probably is dumber than AI.....
I believe LLMs are smarter than half of US adults
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
LLM is proof that even if you're extremely stupid, having access to information can still make you sound smart.
