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

[Gordon Swobe]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 2:42 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Reading these conversations over the last few days, it has struck me
> that some people keep referring to 'real' things, usually using the word
> 'referents' (e.g. an apple), as though our brains had direct access to
> them and could somehow just know what they are.
>
> But we don't.
>
> Think about it, what is "An Apple"?
> ...
> There is no spoon! Er, Apple. There is no Apple!
> Not as a 'real-world thing'.
>

It would seem that you would rather say that apples are not real than say
that the word "apple" has meaning.

-gts
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