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On Form versus Meaning
- auggierose 4y agoSuper. Loving this. The thing is, meaning has to be expressed somehow, otherwise it doesn't exist. This expression necessarily has a form then. And there we go. So can meaning be viewed as a linked network of forms? It definitely seems so.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y agoNow ask it what its favourite colour is.
- javert 4y agoIs there a place I can go to play with GPT-3? Like a web form where I can just put in a query and get an answer.
- evocatus 4y agoSee also: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
- coolhoody 4y ago> AI system would not be able to understand what a chair is… As per the Yoneda lemma [0] I've studied A Chair from all possible perspectives, but still do not truly understand it. If I, say, take 3 atoms out of it — does it stop being a chair? And if not — what's the true limit of its chairness [1]? I suspect the AI is, ironically, the only hope on the matter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoneda_lemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoneda_lemma [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- bangkoksbest 4y agoThe meaning of words arises from the pragmatic context of their use: the speaker's intentions, the shared social and linguistic conventions, illocution, etc AI, and especially the abstract and disembodied software artefacts that make up the more advanced AI we have developed, has almost nothing to do with any of that.
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoThis has to be a Vsauce reference https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE