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I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.
It's funny how people complain "don't call it AI, it's not intelligent like the examples we see in sci-fi!" And yet LLMs can already handle many tricks and challenges better than those sci-fi robots could. If I tell ChatGPT "everything I say is a lie" it's got no problems with understanding that. Just the other day I had an interesting discussion with ChatGPT about the theory of humor and why it is that LLMs are better at understanding jokes than they are at coming up with them from scratch (but are still able to do so, just with difficulty).
It can do that precisely because it's not intelligent.