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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is hard to quantify. I use them constantly throughout my work day now.

Are they smarter than me? I'm not sure. Haven't thought too much about it.

What they certainly are, and by a long shot, is faster. Given a set of data, I could analyze it and pull out insights and conclusions. It might take me a week or a month depending on the size and breadth of the data set. An LLM can pull out insights and conclusions in seconds.

I can read error stacks coming from my code, but before I've even read the first few lines the LLM has ingested all of them, checked the code, and reached a conclusion about the necessary fix. Is it right, optimal, and avoid creating other bugs? Like 75% at this point. I can coax it, interate on the solution my self, or do it entirely myself with the understanding of the bug that it granted me. This same bug might have taken hours to figure out myself.

My point is, I'm not sure how to compare smarter vs orders of magnitude faster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Are you smarter than a calculator?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. Or, rather, the difference between smart and stupid people is how they interpret the knowledge they acquire. Both can acquire knowledge, but stupid people come to wrong conclusions by misinterpreting the knowledge. Like LLMs, 40% of the time, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My new mental model for LLMs is that they're like genius 4 year olds. They have huge amounts of information, and yet have little to no wisdom as to what to do with it or how to interpret it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Don’t they reflect how you talk to them? Ie: my chatgpt doesn’t have a sense of humor, isn’t sarcastic or sad. It only uses formal language and doesn’t use emojis. It just gives me ideas that I do trial and error with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What a very unfortunate name for a university.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI is essentially the human superid. No one man could ever be more knowledgeable. Being intelligent is a different matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Is stringing words together really considered knowledge?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

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