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

[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 1:21 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 2:12 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> But really the meaning of words are quite arbitrary and determined by
>> the people who use them. Thus the referential meanings of words evolve
>> and change over time and come to refer to different things
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> I agree this is a reason for many human miscommunications, but the speaker
> understands his words to meaning *something* and the hearer understands
> those words to mean *something*.
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> As a computational linguist, Bender is on our side.  She is obviously very
> excited about the progress these language models represent, but is
> reminding that the models do not actually understand words to mean anything
> whatsoever.
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What's her evidence of that?

Jason
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