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> That's just anthropomorphising a neural network, which is anything but intelligent. What is intelligence? GPT-3 seems to perform better than my dog at a load
by Closi 5y ago
> That's just anthropomorphising a neural network, which is anything but intelligent.
What is intelligence? GPT-3 seems to perform better than my dog at a load of these tasks, and I think my dog is pretty intelligent (at least for a dog).
I mean, to me this does seem to show a level of what intelligence means to me - i.e. an ability to pick up new skills and read/apply knowledge in novel ways.
Intelligence != sentience.
- 9dev 5y agoThat's an interesting point, and I sure imply sentience when I say intelligence, to a certain degree. I'd argue that GPT-3 does not actually "understand" it's output in any way, it just tricks you into believing it does, for example by having some kind of a short-term memory, or forming coherent sentences. Yet the model has no abstract concept of the things it writes about. It's all just probabilities.
- fault1 5y agoYeah, it's basically Clever Hans. You can see it with the amount of completely nonsensical output you can also randomly get from it if you deviate even a small amount form the input data distribution.