[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

[William Flynn Wallace]

Maybe you need to load the AI with picture dictionaries.  bill w

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 7:26 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 6:43 AM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I address this elsewhere in the thread. A sufficient intelligence given
>> only a dictionary, could eventually decode it's meaning. I provided an
>> example of how it could be done.
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> I saw that, and I disagree. I think if you try to work out an example in
> your head, you will see that it leads to an infinite regression, an endless
> search for meaning. Like ChatGPT, you will learn which word symbols define
> each other word symbol, and you learn the rules of language (the syntax),
> but from the dictionary alone you will never learn the actual meaning of
> the words (the referents).
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> Try it with any word you please. You rapidly have a massive list of words
> for which you have no meaning and for which you much keep looking up
> definitions finding more words for which you have no meaning, and in your
> list you also have many common words (like "the" and "a") that lead to
> endless loops in your search for meaning.
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> -gts
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