[ExI] Bender's Octopus (re: LLMs like ChatGPT)

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Bender's Octopus (re: LLMs like ChatGPT)

 

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 12:56 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

I posed this exact question to ChatGPT 

 

>…ChatGPT has references for what bears and sticks are…

 

Ja, there was something kinda cool about the exchange.  ChatGPT was told “…I am being attacked by an angry bear…”

 

It somehow understood that the interlocutor was not at that moment in the process of being devoured while pecking away on his computer for advice on a survival strategy (the subject of my silly riff.)  It understood it was being asked about a theoretical situation rather than what it was literally told.

 

That kinda implies a form of understanding, or specifically: a very effective use of language models to create the illusion of understanding.

 

I really don’t think it thinks, but it makes us think it thinks.  ChatGPT is wicked cool.

 

spike

 

 

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