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

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

Spike, if I understand you correctly you believe that ChatGPT doesn’t think because its conversations with itself and other chatbots seem to lack original thought and creativity. One important thing to be aware of is that ChatGPT wasn’t trained to ask questions, only to answer questions. These models are specifically trained to be passive and responsive rather than assertive. Companies are afraid of releasing chatbots with personality as personality leads to unpredictability and unpredictability is bad for business. Given these factors it is understandable that ChatGPT’s conversations with itself would lack flavor. I think we should wait until someone releases a model of GPT4 caliber that hasn’t been lobotomized before arriving at conclusions.

> On Mar 23, 2023, at 6:20 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 <mailto: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 <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
>> 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 “…I am being attacked by an angry bear…”
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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 being asked about a theoretical situation rather than what it was literally told.
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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 is wicked cool.
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