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Re:Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves pe... by ethbr1 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:21AM (#38140368)
> Right now it’s like people saw a 486 processor and started thinking it was a brain.

There's a great futurist quip on capability prediction from incomplete understanding. Probably Kurzweil?

Teach a computer to play chess. Show that to an average person, who reasons:

   - Computers can now play chess
   - Only people played chess
   ...
   - Only people wrote poetry
   - Therefore, a computer might now be able to write poetry
The missing context being: no, we literally built a machine that can only play chess. (Granted, there are humans like that too)

But it's not an unreasonable line of thought, given that it works for the 90% of our interactions with other people.

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