> A dumb machine that emits one word at a time with no concept of meaning Yup, after trying it, it may not have "true" intelligence whatever that means but it'

> A dumb machine that emits one word at a time with no concept of meaning Yup, after trying it, it may not have "true" intelligence whatever that means but it's not mindlessly dumb either. For example, you can tell it to write a story. You can ask it to put constraints on the story and it will do more or less fine as long as it doesn't involve counting (which it doesn't do particularly well). For example "Bob must do X before Y happens" After it spits it out you can ask him to rewrite the story but change X, for example "make the last monster the hero encountered a dragon" and it will change exactly that and leave everything else the same. You can ask it to make X section longer and it will obey (if only nominally, in my tests it made it only a little longer, and since it doesn't count well it doesn't work either if you tell it to make it X words longer. In short it's not perfect but it clearly can identify concepts in language and obey commands more or less correctly. It's a hell of a lot scarier than a "dumb machine". I've talked to dumber people than this thing.