<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 6:49 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>Look on the bright side, Gordan. You are guaranteed to at least learn <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 actual meaning of the word dictionary from a dictionary alone. As <br>
well as the actual meaning of the word sentence. You will even learn <br>
the actual meaning of the word "word". There are plenty of referents <br>
in a dictionary if you know what to look for. ;)<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Hi Stuart. Perhaps you are only joking, but no, I think that with no knowledge of any word meanings, one could not learn from a dictionary even the meaning of "dictionary" or "word" or "sentence." The dictionary would be meaningless chicken-scratch. The most we could learn is that some kinds of chicken-scratch commonly or should logically follow other kinds of chicken-scratch, which is what ChatGPT is designed to report.<br><br>-gts <br><br><br> </div></div></div>