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Depends what you're talking about by meaning. It correctly interprets the first part of the prompt as 'farduddle ~= jump' and the second part as an instructio
by notahacker 6y ago
Depends what you're talking about by meaning.
It correctly interprets the first part of the prompt as 'farduddle ~= jump' and the second part as an instruction to generate a sentence containing farduddle, possibly utilising a corpus of existing sentences containing jump in the context of 'really fast'. But that's also a series of instructions you could imagine as a DSL a relatively simple program could parse and generate a satisfactory response to. Which I believe the OP is classing as 'structure' since it's just performing translations based on familiar syntax. Understanding the concept of 'jumping' is a step further, before we get into the more philosophical stuff about qualia and whether things that can't jump can ever truly understand the experience of jumping...
- ma2rten 6y agoRight, in this context I define meaning as the relationship between symbols. Form would be how to structure a sentence (but that sentence wouldn't have to make sense). If the parent comment was making some kind of Chinese Room argument than I think that's not very helpful for the discussion. "GPT-3 learned nothing about meaning because no computer program can do that by definition". But I don't think they were trying to make that kind of argument as you seem to be suggesting because they said they were unsure if it learned anything about meaning.