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Evidence is growing that LLMs will never be the route to AGI. They are consuming exponentially increasing energy, to deliver only linear improvements in performance. (arxiv.org)

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’ll keep presenting this challenge until someone meets it:

Anyone who thinks LLMs aren’t generally intelligent, can you name a text processing task (ie text in, text out) than a general intelligence can do, that an LLM cannot?

[–] onion@feddit.de 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Text in: a statement
Text out: confirmation whether statement is factually true or not

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Is that something a human can do consistently?

If it’s not, does that imply a human does not possess general intelligence?

[–] Endward23@futurology.today 4 points 7 months ago

To be honest, even the human mind has this faculty not in all cases.

[–] itsralC@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Logic. As an example, non textbook math questions. I asked ChatGPT 3.5 this:

Four friends (A, B, C and D) are standing in line. How many combinations are possible given that A and C cannot be next to eachother?

It answered 20, the correct answer is 12.

All possible conbinations

abcd,abdc,adbc,adcb, cbad,cbda,cdba,cdab, bcda,badc, dcba,dabc

Its answer

To solve this, let's first consider the total number of combinations when there are no restrictions. Since there are 4 friends, there are 4! (4 factorial) ways to arrange them, which equals 24 combinations.

Now, let's count the number of combinations where A and C are next to each other. Since A and C can be arranged in 2 ways, and for each arrangement, the other two friends (B and D) can be arranged in 2! ways, the total number of combinations where A and C are next to each other is 2 * 2! = 4.

So, the number of combinations where A and C cannot be next to each other is the total number of combinations minus the number of combinations where A and C are next to each other:

24 - 4 = 20 combinations.

[–] Umbrias 2 points 7 months ago

You can have it try again over and over, even while telling it the answer is 12, and it hallucinates basically random numbers to boot.