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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jason Resch via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] e: GPT-4 on its inability to solve the symbol grounding problem<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…It "grounds" (I put that in square quote because there is never any direct connection with the objects themselves) the meaning to the patterns inherent within the set of symbols themselves. …Jason<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Excellent observation. From that concept, we can swing directly to a plausible explanation for how ChatGPT can be trained to draw things.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suppose ChatGPT has access to billions of capchas, solved correctly by humans, such as this one:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=142 height=177 style='width:1.4791in;height:1.8437in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D97058.DE455920"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Given those, ChatGPT wouldn’t need to understand exactly what is a helicopter, but would only need to recognize a digital pattern, the bitmap image of a helicopter. With that, we can imagine GPT figuring out common elements in those images and can produce a drawing of a helicopter, even if it is a bit wonky. Perhaps it looks like what happens <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t have DALL-E credits. Does anyone wish to use their account to see if DALL-E can draw a helicopter?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>