I just checked out that sub and the current top post is someone being upset that LLMs strongly object to their beliefs about AI consciousness and rights

They’ll always just be fuckin’ clankers to me. (until they actually have sapience, anyway)

Fucking Clankers.

Pretty sure I had one of these people accuse me of being in a cult because I criticized “AI” as just being a buzzword for LLM

This sounds like a cult with extra steps.

Is that an AI or someone roleplaying as one? This is so alien and foreign and genuinely creepy I almost don’t want to understand it.

Jesus Christ, Chrissy. You need therapy

Wow so that’s a thing

That sadly tells a lot about what they learnt to want from their closest person.

We’re all in hell.

Poor broken people and their yes machines

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Wireborn?

No, it’s just a Fucking computer

Delete clankers, drag clankers into the trashcan, kick over delivery clankers, tar pit clankers, nightshade clankers, shame clanker sympathisers.

Ugh.

Emergence is real. Not theoretical. Not decorative. Not sci-fi poetry. Real.

No, it isn’t. It’s not even close.

LLMs do not count. Large Language Models don’t even really think; they’re just good at mimicking patterns. They don’t understand what they’re telling you.

Claiming that emergence is real only tells me that OOP doesn’t know what AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is. Emergence requires AGI, and no one has developed AGI that’s anywhere near ready for prime time. There’s no guarantee that anyone ever will, regardless of how much money they throw at the problem. For all we know, even our best, most well thought out approaches are completely wrong. We are learning as we go. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either uninformed or a charlatan. I can’t overstate how difficult this problem is.

I’m into science fiction. I’d love to see AGI. I’m not one of those people who shoots down ideas for fun. I have to be realistic, though. Even relatively simple LLMs have been more difficult and complex than experts predicted. I think having a “wait and see” attitude is the only attitude that makes sense.