[khafra]

LLMs are an especially tough case, because the field of AI had to spend sixty years telling people that real AI was nothing like what you saw in the comics and movies; and now we have real AI that presents pretty much exactly like what you used to see in the comics and movies.

[xwolfi]

But it cannot think or mean anything, it's just a clever parrot so it's a bit weird. I guess uncanny is the word. I use it as google now, like just to search stuff that are hard to express with keywords.

[adventured]

99% of humans are mimics, they contribute essentially zero original thought across 75 years. Mimicry is more often an ideal optimization of nature (of which an LLM is part) rather than a flaw. Most of what you'll ever want an LLM to do is to be a highly effective parrot, not an original thinker. Origination as a process is extraordinarily expensive and wasteful (see: entrepreneurial failure rates).

How often do you need original thought from an LLM versus parrot thought? The extreme majority of all use cases globally will only ever need a parrot.

[robocat]

> clever parrot

Is it irony that you duckspeak this term? Are you a stochastically clever monkey to avoid using the standard cliche?

The thing I find most educating about AI is that it unfortunately mimics the standard of thinking of many humans...

[LEDThereBeLight]

Try asking it a question you know has never been asked before. Is it parroting?