OK, so he didn't say it. Thanks. Rounding up someone's weak yet extremely normal claim "LLMs are doing something that looks like cognition" to the strong unwarranted claim "LLMs have intelligence" just so you can score whuffie cred on the internet is pretty silly, IMO.
I don't care what anyone thinks. I'm very upset that a person has sunk to such a level. But in a couple of hours, I won't care at all about him.
And most likely there are even more examples in the answers, please look for yourself.
I'm saying that I looked at them, didn't find what you claimed, and your examples of him engaging in normal sloppy talk are extremely weaksauce. I would absolutely refer to an LLM as an "amazing thinking machine" in casual conversation. That doesn't mean I think they're intelligent or conscious.
Got it, little baby ghosts is okay.
Sparks of humanity too
I'm being 100% serious right now: go back and read that "spark of humanity" skeet and ask yourself if "He's saying LLMs have a spark of humanity" is an accurate or fair summary of it. Answer key: it is not.
It's literally in a subordinate clause talking about *an argument that machines can't think* (gesturing broadly at the Searle/Dennet Chinese Room discourse) and saying that that argument raises questions about how we should think about ourselves. He's right! It does! We've spent centuries on them!
Of everything he said, that's IMO the silliest. But I also don't think "Stancil says LLMs are intelligent" is an accurate (or fair) summary of his point.
I hope this concerns you, good luck!
Can you ask him directly about this? Does he think that AI has consciousness/intelligence? Please. I don't plan on interacting with this person ever again, but maybe you'll find out for sure if this is just silly talk or if he's propagandizing for OpenAI.
by "baby ghosts" I mean "the relationships in these numbers are creating something that feels people-like, with LLMs now acting depressed or paranoid" I do not mean "the LLM has a soul"
Does it have intelligence or consciousness? Nice try with the choice of a convenient word btw.
define intelligence and consciousness and I'll give you my best guess
Does AI have what you define as "consciousness" and "intelligence"?
bsky.app/profile/catb...
"a sufficiently complex set of semantic relationships starts to converge on qualities that are distinctly person-like, which is odd and probably worth pondering on"