<div dir="ltr">Here is an example of a language with no referents: MATH. <br>In fact, this is the language we would use to communicate with aliens if they existed. <br><br><a href="https://www.mathnasium.com/blog/why-mathematics-is-a-language#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20be%20considered,than%20spoken%20form%20of%20communication">https://www.mathnasium.com/blog/why-mathematics-is-a-language#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20be%20considered,than%20spoken%20form%20of%20communication</a>.<br><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 2:41 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think those who think LLM 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 understand this, or maybe you have some reasons why I am wrong.<div><br></div><div>-gts</div></div>
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