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> it's just predicting what the next sentence in the document might be Perhaps every time I have a conversation with someone I'm just predicting what the next
by SamBam 5y ago
> it's just predicting what the next sentence in the document might be
Perhaps every time I have a conversation with someone I'm just predicting what the next sentence ought to be and saying it.
How would I know the difference, let alone you?
- gunapologist99 5y agoEarlier, you mentioned predictions. Tell me more about that.
- delusional 5y agoIt's pretty obvious to me that I exist. It's also obvious that I actually have patterns, opinions, and goals behind my words. If I was predicting there would be no deeper goal behind my text.
- whimsicalism 5y agoYou are both emergent out of physical processes that have been optimized for some objective. In your case, the objective is propagation/making more of oneself.
- gunapologist99 5y agoThis is a narrow, simplistic, and tragic view of the world and your purpose in it.
- 9dev 5y agoThat's how a Turing test works, and up until now human subjects have always found the difference. But even if you crafted an even better model that would fool humans, would it really understand the output it generated, or simply attempt to find the output most likely accepted by the reader? Is this what you would call intelligent behaviour?
- int_19h 5y agoDefine "understand". We don't even properly know what it means to be conscious, except that 1) each of us individually knows that they are conscious, and 2) for all the others, we "know it when we see it".
- burrows 5y agoWhat is your argument for the claim, “I am conscious.”?
- int_19h 5y agoThere isn't one - it's an axiom that I simply accept for granted. I don't know what it actually means, or whether it really means anything at all; my strong suspicion is that it all ultimately boils down to "I feel being me", which is rather useless.
- jmvoodoo 5y agoMaybe not, but think of the political applications.
- TimTheTinker 5y agoshudder Imagine a president reading GPT-4-generated text from a teleprompter.