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

[Gordon Swobe]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 12:46 AM Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> *Now, what if they don't beam down to the planet and listen to only
> digital radio signals coming from the planet and send digital radio signals
> in return? No communication is possible as there are no referents. It's all
> noise.*Gordon on you are so wrong.
>

Yes, we can do math, I agree, but this is only because we are
conscious beings with access to the referents. We can "see" the meaning of
pi and understand its relevance because as conscious beings we have access
to mathematical truths, the referents. Digital calculators and computers
and chatbots can only blindly process the numbers.
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