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

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Consider also the laws of physics that basically are tautologies, and still
they work to describe the universe. This is important in terms of how a NLM
can derive an entire universe of understanding from self-referential
statements. If you can do it with physics you can do it with natural
language.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/670811/about-the-tautology-of-physics-quantities-and-laws

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 9:15 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 9:37 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> There's no way to read this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
>> and come away with the impression that GPT-4 has no idea what it is talking
>> about.
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> Hmm, nothing in the abstract even remotely suggests to me that GPT-4 will
> know word meanings any more than does GPT-3. Eventually AI on digital
> computers will far surpass human intelligence, but even then these
> computers will be manipulating the forms of words and not their meanings.
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> Do you believe, like my friend who fell in love with a chatbot, that a
> software application can have genuine feelings of love for you?
>
> -gts
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