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

Gadersd gadersd at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 14:27:16 UTC 2023


> One possible (and very likely, in my opinion) interpretation of all this is not how clever, or intelligent or conscious or whatever, these LLMs are, but how relatively simple, as well as limited, our own vaunted mental processes really are.

This observation can be extended to nearly everything. The universe is much simpler than humans once thought. That the very encompassing known laws of this world can be enumerated on a postcard would have left the ancient Romans starstruck. It should be no surprise that the workings of the mind would be fundamentally simple. It must be simple enough to encode on DNA if not a postcard after all.

> On Apr 6, 2023, at 3:12 AM, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> One possible (and very likely, in my opinion) interpretation of all this is not how clever, or intelligent or conscious or whatever, these LLMs are, but how relatively simple, as well as limited, our own vaunted mental processes really are.
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> Ben
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