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

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 17:41:17 UTC 2023


Simple???  You think humans are simple?  Our brains are the most complex
thing in the universe and the more psychology tries to understand it, the
more complex it becomes.  "The more you know the more you realize just how
much you don't know."   I dunno who said that.  bill w

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 9:29 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> > 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Ben
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