[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 9:40 AM Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:11 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Gordon's objection is at a more basic level, if I understand it correctly.
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> Yes, I think you understand exactly what I am saying, Adrian. It looks to
> me like ChatGPT and other Large Language Models are something like
> powerful, interactive, digital dictionaries or encyclopedias. They are
> incredibly powerful tools, but it is a mistake attribute to them the
> ability to actually know the meanings of the words they contain and process.
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> As humans, we tend to anthropomorphize our seemingly intelligent tools.
> Asked what the time is, I might say "According to my watch, it is 10:30 AM"
> but what I really mean is "According to me, referencing my watch as a tool,
> it is 10 AM." My watch itself has no idea what the time is.
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> Likewise, chess computers do not really *know* how to play chess and
> ChatGPT does not really know the meanings of the words it generates.
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> -gts
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