The media has done little to counter the mob psychology; they have mostly listened to people with money, with vested interests, not to scientists. Many of us … have been emphasizing for ages that there are principled limits with LLMs.
—Gary Marcus
#media #llm #llms

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I translated a text with deepl today. It isn't very good, but I noticed that translating my corrections back into the original language often made the original text better. The translator thus showed me how to become my own editor. Maybe this is the true value of #LLMs . They have no reasoning ability, no curiosity. They prefer to make mistakes than to work out implications. They are pure collective language oracles, the quintessential proof-readers.

#translation #LLM #AI #writing

Do #LLMs have mental states?

on standard definitions in philosophy a state or event is a "mental state" if and only if it is a conscious state or an intentional state

I assume LLMs aren't conscious but how is a currently active representation that mediates ChatGPT4o drawing a table, identifying a table in an image, or answering a query about tables *not* an intentional state in the sense of this definition, i.e. something that has 'intentionality' in the sense of 'aboutness'?

@philosophy

Update. "Our results suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of text submitted as peer reviews to these [#CS] conferences could have been substantially modified by #LLMs, i.e. beyond spell-checking or minor writing updates."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

#AI #PeerReview

Good start on a hard question — how or whether to use #AI tools in #PeerReview.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2587766/v1

"For the moment, we recommend that if #LLMs are used to write scholarly reviews, reviewers should disclose their use and accept full responsibility for their reports’ accuracy, tone, reasoning and originality."

PS: "For the moment" these tools can help reviewers string words together, not judge quality. We have good reasons to seek evaluative comments from human experts.

When do you #askFedi instead of #ChatGPT or other #LLMs?
Why, or why not?

Well, these authors cut right to the chase in this paper!

#LLMs
#AI
#GenerativeAI
#bullshit
#ethics
#truth

#chatgpt and #LLMs would be nothing without #Wikipedia