<div dir="auto">Could you define "understand"?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh dear this is going to be the Chinese room all over again...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's a lot better than all the political bullshit people have been spewing here though so by all means philosophize away</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 5:41 AM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think those who think LLMĀ AIs like ChatGPT are becoming conscious or sentient like humans fail to understand a very important point: these software applications only predict language. They are very good at predicting which word should come next in a sentence or question, but they have no idea what the words mean. They do not and cannot understand what the words refer to. In linguistic terms, they lack referents.<br><br>Maybe you all already understandĀ this, or maybe you have some reasons why I am wrong.<div><br></div><div>-gts</div></div>
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