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ChatGPT Has a Stroke When You Ask It This Specific Question
(futurism.com)
I burned down a forest to confirm
Don't ask it to name an NFL team that doesn't end with 's'
DeepSeek eventually gets it, but it's DeepThink takes a good ten minutes of racing 'thoughts' and loops to figure it out.
If it cannot be used for something it wasn't intended, then it isn't intelligence. And since language processing is both what it is made from and intended for, this shows that there is no emergent intelligent understanding of its actual speciality function, it's just a highly refined autocomplete with some bolted-on extras.
Not that more research couldn't necessarily find that mysterious theoretical threshold, but the focus on public-facing implementations and mass application is inefficient to the point of worthlessness for legitimate improvement. Good for killing people and disrupting things though.
no shit. death to ad men. but LLMs aren't for most of these stunts. that's part of the problem but it's like saying my bike is bad at climbing trees. at least the bike isn't being advertised for arbory
But what is it for? Other than be a bottomless pit for resources.
It does seem cultish to present the thinking machine but when it is presented with easily verifiable tasks it regularly completely shits the bed but we are supposed to blindly trust it with more complicated matters that aren't easily verified.