suddenlybananas

Have you ever heard of Clever Hans?

Nicaraguan sign language is evidence for an innate language capacity, not that it is an invented technology and certainly not evidence for Sapir Whorf.

Norwegians, Danes, Swedes and Finns all use a different currency. Finns and Sicilians do share a currency though, but all these countries have different immigration policies and regulations. I don't think you really know how the EU works.

>If Opus 13.5 can one-shot a profitable company

No company would ever release such a thing

My whole point is what we could communicate would be profoundly limited. It's like how we can communicate with dogs to a certain extent, but we're not telling them bedtime stories. The comment I responded to originally is fantasising an absurd degree of complexity in communication which is profoundly unrealistic.

I think you are very naïve about how complicated language is. I'm not saying animals lack any intelligence whatsoever, but I don't see how remembering faces means you'll be able to talk. The crows could just have acted hostile to the masked people in front of each other. Communicating is not the same thing as language which is vastly more expressive than any non-human animal is capable of.

Not everyone agrees that Neanderthals possessed language like us either, although evidently they are much, much closer evolutionarily to us than crows or whales, and it is vastly more plausible that they talked. Having Neanderthal DNA doesn't mean that we talked with them though, it needn't have been even consensual, unfortunately.

That is not going to happen. I don't know how people entertain these absurd ideas about animal communication.

You mentioned both performance and apps before I did.

It hasn't done that though.

Where does this idea that people don't care about performance come from? They don't care _why_ or _how_ it is important, but people very much care whether an app is slow or fast.

Yeah and a five-year old gets bigger every year so they'll surely grow up to be 100m tall.

I think that correlation would actually go opposite than you're implying, given its billionaires who are by for the most gung-ho about AI. If anything, opposition to AI is much larger among people who have to work for a living over people who can live off capital.

How is that different from just saying "evolutionary adaptive changes can seem clever".

>I feel like it only makes mistakes anywhere near that when my prompting is lazy or stupid.

This means you need a skilled operator to get good results out of the AI, which casts some doubt about the way in which they are intelligent.

>It talks exactly like a human, what do you want it to do?

Eliza can sometimes pass the Turing test!

What's the app?

A French-language novel that had won a lot of acclaim (shortlised for the Prix Goncourt) seems to have been written by AI: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-ore...

Admittedly, I don't think there's any chance it was one shot, rather a pastiche of many, many prompts guided by the quasi-author.

Do you think every submission is meaningful, insightful or useful?

What's the point of this comment? Did you even read the article?

>TFA's points only make sense if the mental model the author has in mind is someone who writes a prompt then immediately puts an app into production without any thought behind it.

If coding were solved, then this would be true no?

Would you at least concede that the Zizian offshoot was a cult? They murdered multiple people!

Why are you being downvoted for this?

It is a bit frustrating that you reported it as being so much better than human made solutions despite not checking even the most basic conditions.

It's terrible writing to be honest. He's also Haitian-Canadian and not European.

How would the model know the author is black? People have also looked at pangram at other Haitian authors in French and it doesn't give them high AI scores.

There's important extra context on this case in that the author has been discovered to be a flagrant plagiarist. He won an award in 2014 for a work which was almost entirely ripped from a French novel in the 60s.

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2026-09-23/thelyson...

The writing is pretty terrible and shlocky but the topic is what the committee is looking for.

He's been revealed as a flagrant plagiarist [1] and there's a lot of evidence that his writing before 2023 had very low pangram scores, and the other authors nominated did not have high pangram scores.

[1] https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2026-09-23/thelyson...

The point is just you can't just insist on looking at the pros and ignoring the cons of something broad.

I give a shit about knowledge! I think it's good entirely for its own sake.