<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:14 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Quoting Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<br>> The test is a demonstration of what GPT-3 is, and isn't. It is good at<br>
> generating reasonable text. It isn't smart.<br>
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From what I have been able to see of its output, it actually is <br>
pretty smart when comes to writing stuff. It just seems to lack common <br>
sense which is understandable since GPT-3 has no sensory inputs except <br>
for text. This could cause it to underperform on tasks that would <br>
require it to associate text with sensory and motor experiences just <br>
as Bill Hibbard observed earlier.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>GPT-3 is a statistical language model. It deep-learns from a massive amount of written text. It has no mechanism whatsoever for understanding the text or reasoning/thinking/planning/problem solving/self awareness. Any intelligence you perceive in its output comes from the authors of the training text.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> The original question of the thread was: is GPT-3 conscious. I think it's<br>
> clearly not.<br>
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You have made that quite obvious. And while I do value your opinion, I <br>
am agnostic at this point barring further reliable data but very <br>
curious. Therefore, I have joined the waitlist to beta test GPT-3 <br>
through an API for research purposes. If my request is approved, I <br>
think it would be interesting experiment to have GPT-3 set up to post <br>
to ExI's mailserver although I would need assistance with that from <br>
John Klos and perhaps you or one of the other tech gurus on the list. <br>
Then we could generate our own reliable data.<br>
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Are you interested?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, that would be interesting. It's a shame that OpenAI isn't really open and that Microsoft "owns" GPT-3.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave </div></div></div>