Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
Having worked in ML at two different companies now, I think that people interpreting model output as intelligence or understanding says much more about the people than about the model output.<p>We <i>want</i> it to be true, so we squint and connect dots and it's true.<p>But it isn't. It's math and tricks, and if human intelligence is truly nothing more than math and tricks, then what we have today is a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the amount of math and tricks in the average human brain, because what we have today isn't anywhere close.