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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2024 Marchdingnuts

About ChatGPT making up code for a small, obscure programming language.

This is a demonstrative example of why an LLM is NOT intelligent at all, and we need to stop calling these models AI.

A real intelligence would be able to either put together the information needed and fill in gaps with research or it would be able to tell you that it does not know.

"Hallucination" is yet another anthropomorphism of the model. A mind hallucinates; a model just produces incorrect results.

LLMs are very cool but I'm really sick of the "intelligence" branding. If a person who didn't know about something just confidently made shit up, I wouldn't call them intelligent.

An AI asked about an obscure topic either researches the gaps or says it doesn't know, instead of making things up.

Has this happened?

Yes 79 (59%)Not sure 22 (16%)No 34 (25%)

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