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

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 17/04/2023 20:45, Giovanni Santostasi wrote:
> If you do cognitive tests that are used to test humans then GPT-4 has 
> a similar performance to humans at different levels of development 
> depending on the task.

Actually, that raises a rather disturbing thought: If Gordon, and 
others, like the linguists he keeps telling us about, can dismiss these 
cognitive tests when applied to GPT-4, it means the tests can't be 
relied upon to tell us about the humans taking them, either. For a test 
to be any use, we have to treat the subject as a 'black box', and not 
make any assumptions about them, otherwise there's no point doing the 
test. So presumably these people think that such tests are no use at 
all. Otherwise it's, what? racism? I don't know what to call it.

Looks like the old AI goalpost-moving means we're going to have to stop 
doing cognitive tests, on anybody/thing. They're no use anymore!

Ben