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Re: Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

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I mean, I was sold something different. Something super human, vastly more intelligent, world changing. The reality is not that. Am I allowed to be disappointed and discouraged?

Because you can have it review itself and iterate on its own work before showing you. If you insist on reviewing its one-shot output you'll be disappointed, but if you consider its internal work private and only consider its final output, it's different. Also we're still in the middle of the transformation, clearly the AI we'll have in 5 years will be radically different and better (by some definition of better) than…

"clearly the AI we'll have in 5 years will be radically different and better"

Based on past performance that's not clear at all. Remember Elon predicting full self driving by 2017. It's almost 10 years past that predicted date and it's still not quite there. 5 years is nothing in tech. It takes 5 years to get a slightly improved chip designed and manufactured. It's been 3.5 years since ChatGPT was released and the LLMs of today are not radically different from that, and no radical changes have been teased. We're still in the throw-more-hardware-at-it phase. We could be here a while.

Re: Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because right now humans do have a magical ability machines don't. LLMs are a fuzzy reflection of what they've seen hundreds of times already, they don't have originality or intelligence (yet). As a much more immediate practical matter, LLMs trained on LLM output makes them worse overall, they degrade from doing that. So the more LLM-prodoced content fills the web, the less useful it is as a data source for future LL…

Saying they don't posses any level of intelligence is wild .

The intelligence is an emergent property of their ability to predict how a statement will proceed, therefore it is inevitably a reiteration or transformation at best. Lots of intelligent things can be produced from that, but nothing truly novel.
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