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[OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which he says makes users feel like they're "talking to a thoughtful person." Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, argued last year that the next generation of artificial intelligence will be "smarter than a Nobel Prize winner." Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google's DeepMind, said the goal is to create "models that are able to understand the world around us." These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not "understand" anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another.

OP: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/062257/ai-is-not-intelligent-the-atlantic-criticizes-scam-underlying-the-ai-industry

Primary source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-is-not-intelligent/ar-AA1GcZBz

Secondary source: https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780063418561

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[โ€“] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you ever tried to use ai for code you'd know how dumb it was.

Generally it's ok, it'll get some stuff done but if it thinks something is a certain way you can't convince it otherwise. It hallucinates documentation, admits it made it up then carries on telling you to use the made up parts of the code.

Infuriating.

Like I said though, generally pretty good at helping you learn a new language if you have knowledge to start with.

People learning from scratch are cooked, it makes crazy decisions sometimes that will compound over time and leave you with trash.

[โ€“] Dillenger69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh dear God yes ... my employer wants us to use Cursor. I've tried twice now. It can't debug C# unit tests. In attempting to configure itself to do that it hosed itself so badly that I had to uninstall Cursor AND Code then wipe my system of IDE leftovers and reinstall both. Attempt 2 was to have it go through a rather large class file to make sure there were newlines in the right place, and remove excess newlines. It totally hosed the class file and I had to revert. It then apologized profusely and admitted it really shouldn't be used to make direct changes to files.

It's ok if you want to get a nudge in the right direction when you're suck. But that's about it.

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