• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Define “understand” as you’re using it here? What exactly does the AI not do, that humans do, that comprises “understanding”?

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      2 years ago

      Understanding the general sanity of some of their responses. Synthesizing new ideas. Having a larger context. AI tends to be idiot savants on one hand and really mediocre on the other.

      You could argue that this is just a reflection of lack of training and scale but I wonder.

      You will change my mind when I have had a machine interaction where the machine does not seem like an idiot.

      Edit: AI people call the worst of these hallucinations but they are just nonsensical stuff that proves AI knows nothing and are just dumb correlation engines.

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        2 years ago

        Have you ever interacted with a human that seemed like an idiot? Do you think that person is incapable of understanding?

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          2 years ago

          Most humans are not very intelligent either and many lack the ability to understand many things. We are not really thinking machines. We are emotional creatures that some times think. So I would not measure AI against the average human. That is a pretty low bar.