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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Me? How can I move goalposts in a single sentence? We've had no previous conversation... And I'm not agreeing with the previous poster either..

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By entering the discussion, you also engaged in the previops context. The discussion uas about LLMs being parrots.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And the argument was if there's meaning behind what they generate. That argument applies to AGIs too. It's a deeply debated philosophical question. What is meaning? Is our own thought pattern deterministic, and if it is, how do we know there's any meaning behind our own actions?

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

The burden of proof lies on the people making the claims about intelligence. "AI" pundits have supplied nothing but marketing-hype.