[ExI] GPT-4 on its inability to solve the symbol grounding problem

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023, 9:30 AM Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 5:13 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Please see and understand the images in this Twitter thread.
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> In know all about Sydney, thanks. As I have mentioned, LLMs can converse
> in the first person like conscious individuals on account of they are
> trained on vast amounts of text much of it written in the first person by
> conscious individuals. They are parroting what a conscious person speaking
> in the first person looks like in language. This is why the founders of
> OpenAI say that the only true test of consciousness in an LLM would require
> that it be trained on material completely devoid of references to first
> person experience, etc.
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> I do not dispute that the developers have the capacity to turn this “first
> person conscious individual” feature off, or that to some extent they might
> have done so with GPT-4. It’s just software except in our extropian
> fantasies.
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If you understand this manipulation exists, then do you see why using
quotes from GPT where it denies being conscious hold no weight?

Jason

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