<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Maybe you need to load the AI with picture dictionaries. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 7:26 PM 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 6:43 AM Jason Resch <<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div dir="auto">I address this elsewhere in the thread. A sufficient intelligence given only a dictionary, could eventually decode it's meaning. I provided an example of how it could be done.</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>I saw that, and I disagree. I think if you try to work out an example in your head, you will see that it leads to an infinite regression, an endless search for meaning. Like ChatGPT, you will learn which word symbols define each other word symbol, and you learn the rules of language (the syntax), but from the dictionary alone you will never learn the actual meaning of the words (the referents).<br><br>Try it with any word you please. You rapidly have a massive list of words for which you have no meaning and for which you much keep looking up definitions finding more words for which you have no meaning, and in your list you also have many common words (like "the" and "a") that lead to endless loops in your search for meaning.<br><br>-gts<br> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><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"><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">
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