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I know what a giraffe looks like and some aspects of their behavior. I couldn't build a giraffe, I've never been a giraffe, I wouldn't even know what to talk ab

• Sakos 4y ago
  But there are things you can infer about a giraffe based on your knowledge of animals in general. You know that you don't know certain things about giraffes and you're capable of asking about these things and extending your understanding of giraffes (and other animals, or their environment). There is a multi-layered quality to knowing what a giraffe is that has nothing to do with having memorized minute details about behavior or physical properties. Maybe eventually DALL-E will be capable of this, but being able to reproduce images based on a word simply isn't indicative of anything other than it's good at identifying visual patterns and associating them with words and being able to reproduce a new pattern based on known patterns. This is basically on the same level as our visual cortex and some form of memory. But our visual cortex isn't sufficient to give us consciousness.