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Half of LLM users (49%) think the models they use are smarter than they are, including 26% who think their LLMs are “a lot smarter.” Another 18% think LLMs are as smart as they are. Here are some of the other attributes they see:

  • Confident: 57% say the main LLM they use seems to act in a confident way.
  • Reasoning: 39% say the main LLM they use shows the capacity to think and reason at least some of the time.
  • Sense of humor: 32% say their main LLM seems to have a sense of humor.
  • Morals: 25% say their main model acts like it makes moral judgments about right and wrong at least sometimes. Sarcasm: 17% say their prime LLM seems to respond sarcastically.
  • Sad: 11% say the main model they use seems to express sadness, while 24% say that model also expresses hope.
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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

An llm simply has remembered facts. If that is smart, then sure, no human can compete.

Now ask an llm to build a house. Oh shit, no legs and cant walk. A human can walk without thinking about it even.

In the future though, there will be robots who can build houses using AI models to learn from. But not in a long time.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

3d-printed concrete houses are already a thing, there's no need for human-like machines to build stuff. They can be purpose-built to perform whatever portion of the house-building task they need to do. There's absolutely no barrier today from having a hive of machines built for specific purposes build houses, besides the fact that no-one as of yet has stitched the necessary components together.

It's not at all out of the question that an AI can be trained up on a dataset of engineering diagrams, house layouts, materials, and construction methods, with subordinate AIs trained on the specific aspects of housing systems like insulation, roofing, plumbing, framing, electrical, etc. which are then used to drive the actual machines building the house. The principal human requirement at that point would be the need for engineers to check the math and sign-off on a design for safety purposes.

[–] WagyuSneakers@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

If you trained it on all of that it wouldn't be a good builder. Actual builders would tell you it's bad and you would ignore them.

LLMs do not give you accurate results. They can simply strong along words into coherent sentences and that's the extent of their capacity. They just agree with whatever the prompter is pushing and it makes simple people think it's smart.

AI will not be building you a house unless you count a 3D printed house and we both know that's overly pedantic. If that were the case a music box from 1780 is an AI.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

What that overwhelming, uncritical, capitalist propaganda do...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 17 hours ago

Maybe if the adults actually didn't use the LLMs so much this wouldn't be the case.

[–] beatnixxx@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

At least half of US adults think that they themselves are smarter than they actually are, so this tracks.

[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 27 minutes ago

Do the other half believe it is dumber than it actually is?

[–] killabeezio@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

LLMs are smart, they are just not intelligent

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Wow. Reading these comments so many people here really don't understand how LLMs work or what's actually going on at the frontier of the field.

I feel like there's going to be a cultural sonic boom, where when the shockwave finally catches up people are going to be woefully under prepared based on what they think they saw.

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago

Hallucination comes off as confidence. Very human like behavior tbh.

[–] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 minutes ago

If we are talking about American adults, I guess they might be right.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Why are you even surprised at this point, when it comes to Americans ?

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