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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)
submitted 3 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Half of LLM users (49%) think the models they use are smarter than they are, including 26% who think their LLMs are “a lot smarter.” Another 18% think LLMs are as smart as they are. Here are some of the other attributes they see:

  • Confident: 57% say the main LLM they use seems to act in a confident way.
  • Reasoning: 39% say the main LLM they use shows the capacity to think and reason at least some of the time.
  • Sense of humor: 32% say their main LLM seems to have a sense of humor.
  • Morals: 25% say their main model acts like it makes moral judgments about right and wrong at least sometimes. Sarcasm: 17% say their prime LLM seems to respond sarcastically.
  • Sad: 11% say the main model they use seems to express sadness, while 24% say that model also expresses hope.
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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

only boomers and tech-unsavy people think that.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

What that overwhelming, uncritical, capitalist propaganda do...

[–] beatnixxx@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

At least half of US adults think that they themselves are smarter than they actually are, so this tracks.

[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wtf is an llm

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow. Reading these comments so many people here really don't understand how LLMs work or what's actually going on at the frontier of the field.

I feel like there's going to be a cultural sonic boom, where when the shockwave finally catches up people are going to be woefully under prepared based on what they think they saw.

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[–] killabeezio@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago

LLMs are smart, they are just not intelligent

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