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?

  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The idea that these models are just stochastic parrots that only probabilisticly repeat their training data isn’t correct

    I would argue that it is quite obviously correct, but that the interesting question is whether humans are in the same category (I would argue yes).