You seem to have an extreme arrogance surrounding your ability to understand what these programs are doing at a base level. Can you explain further your ability to understand this? What gives you such grand confidence to say these sorts of things?
Not the parent poster. The vast number of commenters in this thread seem to assume that these LLMs are close to, if not actually, general AIs. It’s quite refreshing to see comments challenging the hype.
Don’t you think the burden of proof lies with those that think this is something more than a just a dumb statistical model?
That's not what anyone is saying. What we're saying is that these technologies are already outside of our realm of understanding. We have already entered a zone where we do not know what these LLMs can do, or what they're capable of.
And that is truly terrifying. That's the gist of what we're all trying to say. Everyone else seems to be going "Bah! How stupid to think that this is anything more than pattern recognition and prediction!"
The same phrase could be used to describe a human. We're just trying to say "we don't know what this technology is, and we don't know what it can do". Anyone saying "it's clearly just a tool!" is being dangerously arrogant.
