sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoA Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentientwww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square141linkfedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down121
arrow-up1247arrow-down1external-linkA Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentientwww.xda-developers.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square141linkfedilink
minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·2 days agoFor the record, at least one Nobel Prize winner disagrees about LLM sentience https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agoA lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites: Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.
For the record, at least one Nobel Prize winner disagrees about LLM sentience
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw
A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:
Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems
James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists
Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s
Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories
Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS
Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.