> Without providing even a basic definition of intelligence you can't proclaim "this is intelligence". You seem to have settled on "Artificial Intelligence" but than disunite that from "reasoning".
This is clearly false. I (and others) described how the Hugging Face attack demonstrates each feature enumerated in the consensus from that Definitions section (as well as all 8 definitions in that section). You're free to disagree with any or all of those definitions, but to say I didn't provide any is simply a false statement.
> All your "insight" has been trying to disprove what I wrote.
Let's remember how all this started, where you responded to "There is so much more going on, with MOEs, internal loops, guardrails and tools that I suspect we're dealing with something that's a little more than the sum of its parts. Not intelligent in the way we recognize in biological organisms, but certainly something beyond a mere Markov chain."
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> Make no mistakes.
> LLMs are language model, and nowhere in their code you can find actual reasoning. Re-reinforcement is not magical process that builds conscience or emotions.
> We are talking about probability built on statistics, with extea steps.
> Stop humanizing LLMs.
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> Anyway, listen, I do not have to convince you my point of view is correct, and you do not have to convince me that your point of view is correct. Believe what you think it's true, honestly I don't care.
I don't know how you think this works, but if you take a position (and criticize others' positions), you should expect people to push back and that you have to defend your position. If you want to just state your opinions without pushback, you can start a blog and disable comments.
I and others in this thread (who were smart enough to bail out already) have pushed back and claimed the following:
1. The Hugging Face attack provided evidence of reasoning
2. The Hugging Face attack demonstrated features of intelligence (defined and described above)
3. Conscience and emotions are not necessary components for intelligence
4. Ascribing intelligence to AI/LLMs is not "humanizing" them
You disagree, as you're free to do, but it's clear nothing you read here will ever cause you to agree with any of those assertions.
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> It's exactly as the typing monkeys example
For the record, the monkeys with the typewriters don't coordinate, don't strategize, don't hypothesize and test, don't try to exploit the environment, don't change the actions they take in response to results, so that doesn't sound "exactly as the typing monkeys example."
You also state that LLMs simply produced a large amount of invisible possible actions that we didn't see because they didn't result in overt action, yet: 1. somehow you know they proposed them all and discarded them despite no tangible evidence. 2. somehow the one they did pick "at random" just happened to be plausibly logical (alphabetical deletion -> start with ZZ because that's at the end of the alphabet). 3. implicitly this is supposed to starkly contrast with human intelligence, but in fact what you describe resembles Priming: subconscious activation of adjacent concepts to a stimulus that are not present in the initial response, but become more likely and accessible in subsequent responses, which implies that human intelligence also involves multiple potential paths that are otherwise hidden from which one is selected.