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> It's just a really good illusion from a well tuned stochastic parrot. The stochastic parrot claim is long gone. Someone with actual skill in their respective field can create something new and original from current AI systems. The real danger is that creative/intelligent people are giving up those abilities and letting the AI do it for them.
> The stochastic parrot claim is long gone. That's just marketing.
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The thing with calculator argument that always gets me. I do math unconsciously all the time. Even something as simple as adjusting a recipe when cooking. I don't need to grab a device to do that, I just do the quick math in my head. And the only way I can do that is because I learned how to do math. And even with a calculator, I still needed to know what to calculate. The argument "we don't need math, we have a calc…
> I just do the quick math in my head. And the only way I can do that is because I learned how to do math. A lot of Hacker news commenters tend to overestimate human ability without education. That is, the tend to believe that people are able to do a lot more without regular training than they actually are. They believe that "math" is some naturally ordained eventuality that humans just do, or likewise that "reasonin…
I wonder how much better I could become as an adult at mental math. I did a math course a few years ago (Math Academy) and put some effort into improving my addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication, but I wish I'd done more up front. Even one-figure arithmetic is so fuzzy to me, like it's a hashtable where the keys don't line up to the right values. Can I unlearn that now? O(1) doesn't matter if the result is wrong.