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phriot t1_je779ga wrote

Reply to comment by BigMemeKing in The argument that a computer can't really "understand" things is stupid and completely irrelevant. by hey__bert

But if you feed an LLM enough input data where "5 apples" follows "Adding 2 apples to an existing two apples gets you...," it's pretty likely to tell you that if Johnny has two apples and Sally has two apples, together they have 5 apples. This is true even if it can also tell you all about counting and discrete math. That's the point here.

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Quentin__Tarantulino t1_je8l6u6 wrote

If you feed that information into a human brain enough times and from enough sources, they will absolutely believe it too. Humans believe all sorts of dumb things that are objectively false. I don’t think your argument refutes OP.

Once AI has other sensory inputs from the real world, it’s intelligence is basically equal to that of biological creatures. The difference is that right now it can’t see, hear, or touch. Once it’s receiving and incorporating those inputs, as well as way more raw data than a human can process, not only will it be intelligent, it will be orders of magnitude more intelligent than the smartest human in history.

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