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coldteatoday at 7:51 AM3 repliesview on HN

Not if an LLM over chat can fool most people they're talking to a human (which it can), where the TI-99 speech synthesizer voice absolutely can not.


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Tade0today at 11:57 AM

Does that mean it's intelligent?

To me it just means they can brilliantly fake human conversation - the original design goal of Large Language Models.

It's really easy to tell if you're talking to an LLM if you ask a question that requires actually knowing things, not going for the first search result of a tool call or whatever most popular answer was embedded in the weights.

For this reason even the most sophisticated models still require system prompts, skills and all that other crap.

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zahlmantoday at 9:01 AM

> Not if an LLM over chat can fool most people they're talking to a human (which it can)

I keep hearing this claim, and yet I keep seeing LLM output which is trivially distinguished from human writing. I really can't understand how this gap persists; but then, there seem to have been at least some people who couldn't sniff out ELIZA, back in the day, too.

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shafyytoday at 8:42 AM

Can it? I feel like I instantly recognize if I am chatting with an LLM or a human

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