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Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI

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Re: Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you and him are in disagreement. I read it as him saying "evaluating LLMs is extremely difficult and a big problem right now is that many people are treating them as basically human in capability". Its the opposite problem to the perception of computers in the 70s, early computers were seen by some as too alien to be as useful as a person across most tasks, llms are seen by some as too human to not be a…

WHO exactly is treating them as human? It is a strawman.

Quite a lot of people are.

Re: Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI

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"He says the trouble with generative AI is that, while it’s perfectly capable of performing a certain set of tasks, it can’t do everything a human can" This kind of strawman "limitations of LLMs" is a bit silly. EVERYONE knows it can't do everything a human can, but the boundaries are very unclear. We definitely don't know what the limitations are. Many people looked at computers in the 70s and saw that they could on…

> This kind of strawman "limitations of LLMs" is a bit silly. EVERYONE knows it can't do everything a human can

A large amount of people--many of them with money to invest--seem to believe otherwise.

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