Ask HN: Have you seen genuine emergent behavior in AI?

Posted by handfuloflight 10/28/2024

Beyond pattern recognition (to simplify) on training data, have you encountered examples of AI displaying emergent behavior—something qualitatively novel or unexpected?

2 points | 3 comments

timonoko 10/28/2024|

ChatGPT has stopped hallucinating and making stupid guesses, now it can simply say "I dont know, please help".

Particular test is the word "iiyöaie", and after some coaxing it can now translate it correctly. (It did not know that "ii" is river in Finland.)

Gemini does not even try to parse non-obvious compound words.

timonoko 10/28/2024|

How would you write Finnish word "iiyöaie" so that Englishman can pronounce it?

ChatGPT said:

To help an English speaker pronounce iiyöaie with Finnish sounds, you could write it phonetically like this:

"ee-yuh-eye-eh"

Here's a breakdown for each part:

ii: "ee" like in see yö: "yuh" (the Finnish "ö" is a bit tricky, but "yuh" is close) aie: "eye-eh" (like the English words eye and eh) This should get an English speaker fairly close to the correct pronunciation.

PaulHoule 10/28/2024|

Marvin Minsky himself told me emergent behavior was a crock of s*