Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic

• theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is important to do demonstrations like this in the hopes that the general public will understand the limitations of this tech.

  THIS is the thing. The general public’s perception of ChatGPT is basically whatever OpenAI’s marketing department tells them to believe, plus their single memory of that one time they tested out ChatGPT and it was pretty impressive. Right now, OpenAI is telling everyone that they are a few years away from Artificial General Intelligence. Tests like this one demonstrate how wrong OpenAI is in that assertion.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s almost as bad as the opposition’s comparison of it to Skynet. People are never going to understand technology without applying some fucking nuance.

    Stop hyping new technology… in either direction.

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• Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But the general public (myself included) doesn’t really understand how our own reasoning happens.

  Does anyone, really? i.e., am I merely a meat computer that takes in massive amounts of input over a lifetime, builds internal models of the world, tests said models through trial-and-error, and outputs novel combinations of data when said combinations are useful for me in a given context in said world?

  Is what I do when I “reason” really all that different from what an LLM does, fundamentally? Do I do more than language prediction when I “think”? And if so, what is it?

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is definitely part of the issue, not sure why people are downvoting this. That’s also why tests like this are important, to illustrate that thinking in the way we know it isn’t happening in these models.

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      not sure why people are downvoting this

      downvotes are not allowed on beehaw fyi

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Downvotes aren’t federated but you still see all the downvotes sent from just your own instance

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  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We understand reasoning enough to know humans (and other animals with complex brains) reason in a way that LLMs cannot.

    While our reasoning also works with pattern matching it incorporates immeasurably more signals than language - language is almost peripheric to it even in humans. And more importantly we experience things, everything we do acts as a small training round not just in language but on every aspect of the task we are performing, and gives us a miriad of patterns to match later.

    Until AI can match a fragment of this we are not going to have an AGI. And for the experience aspect there’s no economic incentive under capitalism to achieve, if it happens it will come out of an underfunded university.

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• ByteSorcerer@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think the problem is that, while the model isn’t actually reasoning, it’s very good at convincing people it actually is.

  I see current LLMs kinda like an RPG character build with all ability points put into Charisma. It’s actually not that good at most tasks, but it’s so good at convincing people that they start to think it’s actually doing a great job.

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