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Heck, I really like these. Architecturally, they're a clear step forward from previous peer-to-peer networks like Retroshare.

LLMs are statistical models of human writing, they only offer the appearance of intelligence in the same fashion as the Chinese Room thought experiment.

There's nothing "intelligent" in there, just a very large set of instructions for transforming inputs into outputs.

A sufficiently advanced model of the human brain can be "intelligent" in the same way that humans are, but this would not be "artificial" since it would necessarily employ the same "natural" processes as our brains.

Until we have a model of "intelligence" itself, anyone claiming to have "AI" is just trying to sell you something.

This seems like circular reasoning. SAT scores don't measure intelligence because llm can pass it which isn't intelligent.

The purpose of the SAT isn't to measure intelligence, it is to rank students on their ability to answer test questions.

A copy of the answer key could get a perfect score, do you think that means it's "intelligence" is equivalent to a person with perfect SATs?

Why isn't the llm intelligent?

For the same reason that the SAT answer key or an instruction manual isn't, the ability to answer questions is not the foundation of intelligence, nor is it exclusive to intelligent entities.

You still haven't answered what intelligence is or what an a.i. would be.

Computer scientists, neurologists, and philosophers can't answer that either, or else we'd already have the algorithms we'd need to build human-equivalent AI.

Without a definition you just fall into the trap of "A.I. is whatever computers cant do" which has been going on for a while:

Exactly, you're just falling into the Turing Trap instead. Just because a company can convince you that it's program is intelligent doesn't mean it is, or else chatbots from 10 years ago would qualify.

There is one goalpost that has stayed steady, the turing test, which llm seems to have passed, at least for shorter conversation.

The Turing Test is just a slightly modified version of a Victorian-era social deduction game. It doesn't measure intelligence, but the ability to mimic a human conversation. Turing himself acknowledged this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/turing-test-measures-something-but-not-intelligence-180951702/

None of them. I've resented the need for every single car I've driven.

"Big Bacteria" is a much more accurate descriptor of humans than "Artificial Intelligence" is of large language models.

This is the same problem we had with IQ testing, what the test measures is not "intelligence", but the ability to retain and process information according to a predefined schema. This requires no intelligence at all, as demonstrated by the fact that a sufficiently large statistical model of human writing patterns can pass the SATs.

Exactly. There is no alternative. This is a hostage situation.

And when the guy holding you hostage asks you to pick which of your kids he should murder first, the right move isn't to vote for the "lesser" evil, but to spit in his eye.

Please inform me of the method by which one can vote for "SOME Democrats" without also implicitly consenting to be represented by the rest of the party.

And also, why you think your time is better spent trying to convince a hypothetical single-issue voter to capitulate than calling the Dems and demanding they do better.

I'm not familiar with that seedbox provider, but unless you have a virtual private or dedicated server then you're limited to the applications the host has made available.

If you do have a private node with root access, then you'll be able to install whatever you like. Generally, these are limited to a command-line interface, in which case you'll need something like soulseek-cli, but higher-tier hosting packages often support remote desktop which would allow you to log in and install the graphical version of the app as normal.

Big Autocomplete isn't "AI". This is not new technology, this is "We used buzzwords to hype up 20 year old EEG interpreters, please give us money"

My only note here is that canned beverages have a layer of non-recyclable plastic on the inside to prevent chemical interactions between the contents and the metal. Glass bottles are fine though as (aside from plastic labels) they're fully recyclable.

Cool story, bro.

Money and power are equivalent, hence my identification of the problem as Capitalism. Billionaire-owners who can afford to run a propaganda machine as a loss-leader are also to be abolished.