I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing.

Any good examples on how to explain this in simple terms?

Edit:some good answers already! I find especially that the emotional barrier is difficult to break. If an AI says something malicious, our brain immediatly jumps to “it has intent”. How can we explain this away?

  • CodeInvasion
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    7 months ago

    To add to this insight, there are many recent publications showing the dramatic improvements of adding another modality like vision to language models.

    While this is my conjecture that is loosely supported by existing research, I personally believe that multimodality is the secret to understanding human intelligence.