Your LLM is not "smart" and it cannot "explain", it is a program that can output a statistically average text of an explanation. Don't mistake the capabilities of these models for intelligence.

▲ swishman 8 hours ago | parent [-]

It explained something to me today. So your point is disproven. What is intelligence then if not explaining things. They can be intelligent without consciousness if that’s what you mean

▲ lowsong 7 hours ago | parent [-]

    It explained something to me today. So your point is disproven.

No. It produced a statistically likely answer.

    What is intelligence then if not explaining things.

"the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason"[0]

LLMs by definition cannot learn, understand, make judgements, or have opinions. If you find the model to be a tool that is useful to you, by all means. But do not anthropomorphize.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/intellig...

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swishman 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You're just talking semantics. To me if I read text that helps me understand something, that's an explanation. The black box it comes from is irrelevant.

LLMs do learn, understand, and make judgments. You're just pushing back on the underlying mechanism, which instead of reason/sentience is instead statistics and weights. I'd call that intelligence but I don't really care if you want to call it something else.

	▲	lowsong 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you believe that an LLM can understand and make judgements then you have fundamentally misunderstood what an LLM is. I'd strongly suggest you read up on the internals.