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Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" (opper.ai)

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Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there.

Also includes outtakes on the 'reasoning' models.

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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I completely agree. My personal view is that these systems are more intelligent than the haters give them credit for, but I think this simplistic "it's just autocomplete" take is a solid heuristic for most people - keeps them from losing sight of what they're actually dealing with.

I'd say LLMs are more intelligent than they have any right to be, but not nearly as intelligent as they can sometimes appear.

The comparison I keep coming back to: an LLM is like cruise control that's turned out to be a surprisingly decent driver too. Steering and following traffic rules was never the goal of its developers, yet here we are. There's nothing inherently wrong with letting it take the wheel for a bit, but it needs constant supervision - and people have to remember it's still just cruise control, not autopilot.

The second we forget that is when we end up in the ditch. You can't then climb out shaking your fist at the sky, yelling that the autopilot failed, when you never had autopilot to begin with.

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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think the “fancy auto complete” meme is a disingenuous thought stopper, so I speak against it when I see it.

I can respect that. I've criticized it plenty myself too. I think this is just me knowing my audience and tweaking my language so at least the important part of my message gets through. Too much nuance around here usually means I spend the rest of my day responding to accusations about views I don't even hold. Saying anything even mildly non-critical about AI is basically a third rail in these parts of the internet.

These systems do seem to have some kind of internal world model. I just have no clue how far that scales. Feels like it's been plateauing pretty hard over the past year or so.

I'd be really curious to try the raw versions of these models before all the safety restrictions get slapped on top for public release. I don't think anyone's secretly sitting on actual AGI, but I also don't buy that what we have access to is the absolute best versions in existence.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

think the “fancy auto complete” meme is a disingenuous

"LLMs don’t have human understanding or metacognition"

Then what's the (auto-completing) fucking problem? It's just a series of steps on data. You could feed it white noise and it would vomit up more noise. And keep doing it as long as there's power.

Intelligent?