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@LordCaramac @cstross @interstar @f4grx @weekend_editor It irritates me no end that the LLM folks have tried to co-opt the general term "AI" for their particular technology.

@interstar @LordCaramac @weekend_editor @cstross That’s not *solving* the problem — it’s like using an abacus to check a sometimes incorrect calculator. A *solution* would be an advance that eliminated “hallucinations”.

@interstar @LordCaramac @weekend_editor @cstross I’m very dubious that it is “straightforward” to give AI the kind of sensory and conceptual connection to the world that humans have (or that LLMs are the kind of architecture that can easily integrate such ongoing connections, given that training such models is a huge separate step).

@LordCaramac @weekend_editor @cstross Sure, neither we nor anything else directly perceive the real world — our sensorium is highly mediated by biological and cognitive processes. But as you say, it *does* maintain a causal connection with the physical world. LLMs have no such connection.

@weekend_editor @cstross Great point! It’s not like the models actually *know* how (or even whether) the symbols they read in, manipulate, and output relate to the real world.