It’s really good at making us feel like it’s intelligent, but that’s no more real than a good VR headset convincing us to walk into a physical wall.

It’s a meta version of VR.

(Meta meta, if you will.)

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caOP
    103·
    3 days ago

    I mean to friends and family – people who have accepted it as smart.

    I don’t know about you, but when I try to explain the concept of LLMs to people not in the tech field, their eyes glaze over. I’ve gotten several family members into VR, though. It’s an easier concept to understand.

    • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      words that mathematically fit following the prompts

      if only we had a word for applying math to data to give the appearance of a complex process we don’t really understand.