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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Re-read it: it says AI is capable of "originality" and does not mention "thought" at all.

You're the one presuming that "originality" requires cognition and hence understood "originality" as meaning "original thought" even though they're different concepts (specifically the latter is a subset of the former).

In your interpretation of that paper you did the exact same logical mistake as you seem to be doing in your interpretation of LLMs - you made assumptions backed only by gut feeling thus taking a leap to reach a conclusion ultimately supported only by your gut feeling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

"electronic parrot" and outperforming almost all humans in creativity and originality is an extreme contrast to me, regardless of my misuse of terms. So I fail to understand what you want to say, since this contrast must be apparent to you too.

The original context of my comment was even more basic and to me proven by what the paper says: Those are not things it copied somewhere. Also, I still think there is no test to prove it can/can't think.