Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

If you ascribe any level of sentience or intelligence to a computer, you definitely feel much less dumb than you actually are.

And who are you to assert that? How well defined is sentience already?

I mean, I’m all for local LLMs, but they are as sentient as a really good weather prediction model.

aka not at all.

Its just a fact of how they operate, mechanically. They are missing too many characteristics for it to even be an entertainable question.

They might operate differently but they still appear the same as us, 99.9% of the time. Imo if it looks like a duck and acts like a duck…

Do you not interact with any other actual humans?

I do, and I can say that the conversations with AI (especially using tools like character.ai) are 99% the same