[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

[Will Steinberg]

Could you define "understand"?

Oh dear this is going to be the Chinese room all over again...

It's a lot better than all the political bullshit people have been spewing
here though so by all means philosophize away

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 5:41 AM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Maybe you all already understand this, or maybe you have some reasons why
> I am wrong.
>
> -gts
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