[Tactician_mark]

Sure, it's a sign that we don't "understand this stuff properly", but you can say the same about human brains. Is it a red flag that we use language to communicate with each other instead of manipulating nerve impulses directly?

[fakedang]

> Is it a red flag that we use language to communicate with each other instead of manipulating nerve impulses directly?

From an almighty creator's, yes. Direct telepathic communication is much more efficient compared to spoken language. Just look at the Protoss and where they went, leaving us behind :-(

[LadyCailin]

We have no choice but to have and use our brains, not so with LLMs. We don’t have to start building core technologies off of fundamentally flawed models.

[diydsp]

Great point. Btw: The problem is corporate irresponsibility:

When self-driving cars were first coming out a professor of mine said "They only have to be as a good as humans." It took a while but now i can say why that's insufficient: human errors are corrected by discipline and justice. Corporations dissipate responsibility by design. When self-driving cars kill, no one goes to jail. Corporate fines are notoriously ineffective, just a cost of doing business.

And even without the legal power, most people do try to drive well enough to bit injure each other which is a different calculus from prematurely taking products to market for financial gain.

[Davidzheng]

Such a strange take. We have no choice but to use our brains??? It is also an incredibly capable system! At some point if the capabilities are so drastically different is it confusing that you would choose a much more capable system even with all its flaws?

[IshKebab]

Are you suggesting we just ignore the immense capabilities of these models because we don't fully understand them?

I hope you never need any medicine!

[manojlds]

Yeah, if we wanted to flap wings to fly, we would have never got the airplane.

[stevenhuang]

> fundamentally flawed

Citation needed

[krainboltgreene]

> but you can say the same about human brains

It should be an HN rule that in order to type out variations of this sentence you have to also prove you have a degree in neuroscience.

[xcdzvyn]

I think you should have to show your ML creds to claim LLM research is "pseudoscience", but here we are.

[int_19h]

You don't have to have a degree in neuroscience to be aware of the fact that we aren't even close to understanding how human brain works when it comes to high-level process such as sentience.