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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>From:</b> Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 20 April, 2023 3:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> spike@rainier66.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] all we are is just llms was: RE: 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><p class=MsoNormal>I fed some Spike's email to GPT-4 and here one of the results:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid #D9D9E3 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;background:#F7F7F8'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F7F7F8;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#374151'>Ahoy there, esteemed LLM enthusiasts!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F7F7F8;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing:border-box;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#374151'>Bill, my friend, you've showered me with praise as if I'm a national treasure, and for that, I am humbled. However, your words sparked a brilliant idea in this ol' noggin of mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F7F7F8;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing:border-box;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#374151'>Just imagine, if I were to become more imitable, we could create an army of AI duplicates of yours truly – each one a national treasure in their own right. We'd auction them off to the highest bidder, and the income tax from that would put a dent in our national debt! Now that's what I call a Spike-tastic solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F7F7F8;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing:border-box;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#374151'>And hey, I wouldn't mind benefiting from it either. Just think of all the cool gadgets and gizmos I could get my hands on!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F7F7F8;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing:border-box;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#374151'>So, my fellow LLM compatriots, let's set forth on this grand adventure of replicating the Spike experience. Who knows what wonders await us?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;background:#F7F7F8;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing:border-box;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#374151'>Forever in the spirit of Spike <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hmmmm… Giovanni, when one records oneself speaking and plays it back, it sounds the same to others but not to oneself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That passage above just doesn’t seem me-ey to me. Were this an avatar of me, I would know I wasn’t me. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But cool, how do you feed stuff to ChatGPT? I didn’t know I could feed it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>