I’m not an AI techie and I’m not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I’m having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I’ve heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can’t really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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    3 days ago

    I don’t think computers only do what you program them to do anymore.

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        2 days ago

        emergent behaviour and microscopic differences in huge amounts of parallel computations

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          2 days ago

          Emergent behavior meaning what?

          Which “microscopic” differences?

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            2 days ago

            Hey, Socrates

            look for “emergent behaviour in computers” and specifically the non-programmed behaviour

            look for “floating point non determinism” to see how the same program can produce different results

            keep in mind you asked me on what I base that I think computers don’t only do what they are programmed to do

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              2 days ago

              You know, acting like a dickhead doesn’t really strengthen your argument.

              I’ll speak to someone less pompous about this

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      2 days ago

      Not one of those so-called AI systems is an autonomous entity. Every one of these machine learning systems could be regulated, slowed down, or turned off. If a responsible human being was there to do it. Those CEOs simply refuse to take responsibility.