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Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence (karawynn.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by irkli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That's especially fun when you ask the same question in two different languages and get different results or even just gibberish in the other, usually non-English language. It clearly has more training data in English than it does for some other languages.