• lunarul@lemmy.world
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    LLMs reproduce the form of language without any meaning being transmitted. That’s called parroting.

    Even if (and that’s a big if) an AGI is going to be achieved at some point, there will be people calling it parroting by that definition. That’s the Chinese room argument.

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        4 months ago

        Me? How can I move goalposts in a single sentence? We’ve had no previous conversation… And I’m not agreeing with the previous poster either…

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          By entering the discussion, you also engaged in the previops context. The discussion uas about LLMs being parrots.

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            And the argument was if there’s meaning behind what they generate. That argument applies to AGIs too. It’s a deeply debated philosophical question. What is meaning? Is our own thought pattern deterministic, and if it is, how do we know there’s any meaning behind our own actions?

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              The burden of proof lies on the people making the claims about intelligence. “AI” pundits have supplied nothing but marketing-hype.