powerline-d (I got an AI to port powerline-shell to D)

[Vladimir Marchevsky]

On Thursday, 26 September 2024 at 06:58:28 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> If somebody implemented intelligence as an algorithm, what form 
> would you expect it to take other than "complex math generating 
> specific patterns"?

"If"s are the matter of sci-fi. We are talking about usage of 
existing software.

> You can disprove this to yourself by just talking to it. Have a 
> chat, have it explain what it was going for. Doesn't always 
> work reliably, but that there's *no* understanding there is 
> easily disproven.

"Doesn't work reliably" is an actual proof of it having no 
understanding. It's patterns just sometimes match common logic 
(or you imagine the reasons behind it). If some kid sometimes 
called a specific animal a cat and other times called the same 
animal a dog, you'll be sure that kid has no idea what cats and 
dogs actually are.

> It should be noted that the text models used by image 
> generators are, by current-year standards, absolutely tiny. 
> Like, GPT-2 tier. It does not surprise me that they don't 
> understand things, nor does it say anything about the chat 
> models, which can be a hundred times or more bigger.

Extremely advanced waxwork is still a waxwork, even when it looks 
like a real food or person. It doesn't matter how many patterns 
you put into model, it still just randomly mimics those patterns.

> The question isn't "does it make mistakes", the question is 
> "does it make more mistakes than I do." And in my experience, 
> Sonnet makes *less.* His code compiles a lot more reliably than 
> mine does!

I'll keep that without response, I think...