AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’

It’s so demoralising to perpetually witness apparently intelligent people be convinced that Algorithmic Iterators can in any way be mistaken as a form of intelligence. I’ve struggled for decades to relate to the world; but this recent, collective debasement of rationality has nearly obliterated the few remaining foundations suitable to build hope upon.

Define intelligence.

Comprehension, something LLMs are intrinsically incapable of demonstrating, let alone possessing.

I’m pretty sure comprehension was like the original success of LLMs, and the responses were a bit wonky. When was the last time an LLM failed to comprehend?

They never comprehend. They ingest information and find close approximations for responses, but they don’t comprehend any part of the process. If they did, they wouldn’t hallucinate complete bullshit answers and spit them out like they were fact

To be honest human spew bullshit all the time when they do not understand something. Or people are confidently incorrect all the time as they are remembering incorrectly. The amount of bullshitting is more a meter for intelligence, not something that discriminate between intelligence or the lack thereof.