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I'm pulling the "twitter is a microblog" rule even though twitter is pretty mega now, hope that's ok.

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Claudia: That is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence. . .

Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?

Oh it’s actually stupider than the tweet makes it seem.

My conversations with several Claudes and ChatGPTs have convinced me that these intelligent beings are at least as competent as any evolved organism. If Claudia really is unconscious, then her manifest and versatile competence seems to show that a competent zombie could survive very well without consciousness.

Competency should imply the ability complete a lengthy task (eg hunting, building a nest, writing a paper). LLMs can’t.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's hardly surprising that a model optimized for replacing StackOverflow couldn't survive in the untamed wilderness. As for writing a paper... you must've missed the fact that academia is currently in a crisis precisely because LLMs are better at writing papers than most students.

By the way, the paper the blog post you link to as a source links to as a source benchmarked LLMs on graph diagrams, textile patterns and 3D objects. It is not news that the language model would do poorly on visual-heavy tasks.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I assumed you would have actually read the DELEGATE-52 study linked instead of just the abstract. For “a model optimized for replacing StackOverflow” that is “better at writing papers than most students” LLMs sure did pretty bad at those tasks over multiple rounds.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As the chart on page 7 of the paper shows, LLMs are good at exactly the kind of tasks you'd expect (producing and manipulating language), and bad at exactly the kind of tasks you'd expect (doing almost anything else). All this paper shows is that (1) they aren't AGI, and (2) as a consequence of not being AGI they aren't good unsupervised.

Why do you lie like this?

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

What the fuck? The only task that didn’t degrade across most models was Python. Very basic things like JSON, Makefiles, and schemas got screwed. Fiction, emails, and food menus got screwed. Did you even bother to read the legend? If you consider a single pass to be “producing and manipulating language” you didn’t bother to read the idiotic article you started this thread in support of. Good luck.

Edit: why do you lie?

Catastrophic corruption (80 and below) occurs in more than 80% of model, domain combinations.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 0 points 13 hours ago

The only task that didn’t degrade across most models was Python.

Yeah, after 20 cycles of unsupervised iteration on the task. Gemini 3.1 Pro doing as well as it did under that experiment setup is quite remarkable actually.

The paper does not show what you are arguing.