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

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 6:21 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *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)
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> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 12:56 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
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> I posed this exact question to ChatGPT
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> >…ChatGPT has references for what bears and sticks are…
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> Ja, there was something kinda cool about the exchange.  ChatGPT was told
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> 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
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> That kinda implies a form of understanding, or specifically: a very
> effective use of language models to create the illusion of understanding.
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> I really don’t think it thinks, but it makes us think it thinks.  ChatGPT
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Is there such a thing as "simulated multiplication" or would we say
simulated multiplication is the same thing as real multiplication?

Is there such a thing as "simulated thinking"?

Jason

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