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.

you are just replacing one underspecified concept with another. what’s “comprehension”?

Literal dictionary definitions:

Comprehension: the ability to understand something.

Understand: perceive the intended meaning of something.

Things LLMs are categorically incapable of embodying, and anyone who believes otherwise is demonstrating an innate challenge of grasping themselves.

what’s “perceive”?

you might be thinking you’re pulling a Socrates here, but you began sounding like a annoying 5-year-old that keeps repeating “what’s this, what’s that, why”