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Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. (imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)

submitted 2 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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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When talking about a large, regularly distributed population, there effectively IS no difference

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There might be no difference. In memes or casual conversation the difference usually doesn't matter, but when thinking about important things like government policy or medical science, the difference between mean and median is very important - which is why they both exist.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A joke is definitely casual conversation
Mathematically, the difference becomes increasingly statistically insignificant as your population size increases. Sure maybe there's a few niche cases where a hundred-thousandth of a percent difference matters, but that's not even worth bringing up.
The only reason any of you even bring it up is to try and sound smart in a pedantic, "ackshually" way.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Ironically your whole comment here is an elaborate "ackshually".

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

This whole comment chain was me shutting down an "ackshually" with an even better one.

If you're gonna be an annoying pedantic dick, you better be RIGHT, or someone else will be an even more annoying pedantic dick to you.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Not in all cases. When I teach mean, median and mode, I usually bring up household income. Mean income is heavily skewed by outliers (billionaires), median is a more representative measure.

I guess that’s your “regularly distributed” bit, but a lot of things aren’t regularly distributed.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

IQ is though

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

IQ is also garbage when it comes to the validity of what it claims to measure.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Fair, but you could just say "intelligence" generically instead.