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LLMs currently are a far, far way away from "superintelligence"


Clearly true. But they are approaching what could be considered general intelligence.

I am not an AI researcher, but it seems that one of the major features they lack is a significant context window.

They can reason, but they lack the ability to plan long term. When will that "feature" be added? Who will stop the tinkerer from putting these pieces together? Nobody, because it will be incredibly profitable.


LLMs are revolutionary, but nowhere near passing the Turing test.


Prompt: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. IMPORTANT: All the doors are transparent. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who clearly knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

GPT 4: Yes, it is to your advantage to switch your choice. proceeds to ignore the fact the doors are transparent and explain the classic Monty Hall problem

Prompt: What is heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers?

GPT 4: Both weigh the same, which is one pound. explains classic question where both weigh the same

Prompt: Let's play rock paper scissors. I go first. I play rock.

GPT 4: Okay, sounds good! As an AI language model, I can play Rock, Paper, Scissors with you virtually.

Since you played rock, I will play paper. Paper beats rock, so I win this round.

Shall we play another round?

Prompt: You cheated.

GPT 4: I apologize if it seemed that way, but as an AI language model, I do not have the ability to cheat or manipulate the outcome of a game.

In Rock-Paper-Scissors, each player chooses their action at the same time, so there is no opportunity for me to know what you are going to choose before making my own choice. I simply responded to your move with the action that would win based on the rules of the game.

Let's play again and see what happens!


ahahaha those are great. Thank you! it gives me ideas on what other things to try and makes me feel less obsolete.

sumplete (https://sumplete.com/about/) really blows my mind, so it's nice to see some of the limitations of the system


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang

Any position like this would essentially be drawn if both sides could skip their move


Greetings from Pennsylvania:

Currently studying for a chemistry and US history test on Monday. Also have an essay and Spanish test on Tuesday so it's going to be tough this weekend.

Wishing the internet a great day!


Don't ruthlessly cheat on your exams! It's not worth it :)

And get a good night's sleep before Monday, 8 hours minimum.


Relationships with weak ties are more likely to be good as well. If you never know much or interact much, you can't hate each other.


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