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

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Jason Resch via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] e: GPT-4 on its inability to solve the symbol grounding problem

 

 

 

>…It "grounds" (I put that in square quote because there is never any direct connection with the objects themselves) the meaning to the patterns inherent within the set of symbols themselves. …Jason

 

 

Excellent observation.  From that concept, we can swing directly to a plausible explanation for how ChatGPT can be trained to draw things.

 

Suppose ChatGPT has access to billions of capchas, solved correctly by humans, such as this one:

 



 

Given those, ChatGPT wouldn’t need to understand exactly what is a helicopter, but would only need to recognize a digital pattern, the bitmap image of a helicopter.  With that, we can imagine GPT figuring out common elements in those images and can produce a drawing of a helicopter, even if it is a bit wonky.  Perhaps it looks like what happens 

 

I don’t have DALL-E credits.  Does anyone wish to use their account to see if DALL-E can draw a helicopter?

 

spike

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