[ExI] Language models are like mirrors

[Gordon Swobe]

Found the article where I saw the analogy...

Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 5:36 PM Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:18 PM Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Gordon,
>> *almost everybody disagrees with you. *
>>
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> ChatGPT-4 itself agrees with me. It says it cannot solve the symbol
> grounding problem for itself as it has no conscious experience, and says it
> therefore does not understand the meanings of the words as humans do, and
> that in this respect it is at a disadvantage compared to humans. See my
> thread on the subject.
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> Spike also agrees these are only language analysis tools. Brent also seems
> to agree that they have no access to referents and therefore  no way to
> know meanings of words.
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> And this is not democracy, in any case. I’m not afraid to be in the
> company people who disagree wit me.
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>
> -gts
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> > -gts
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