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Being a little bit of a devil's advocate, how do you know you have an understanding of the ideas? How do you know the AI does not? Both of these questions are t
by dzdt 4y ago
Being a little bit of a devil's advocate, how do you know you have an understanding of the ideas? How do you know the AI does not? Both of these questions are tough to answer. (I'll put a relevant ChatGPT essay in a subsequent response digging into the philosophy a bit.)
I do think you are on the right track with your criticism however. I agree GPT is not a general intelligence, it is a general pattern matcher. By design it produces flows of text similar to what it was trained on, without regard for how well these correspond to the actual world or even a hypothetical but rule-governed world.
The map is not the territory; GPT deals exclusively with the "map" side.
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- Jensson 4y ago> How do you know the AI does not? Easy, GPT-3 doesn't provide a coherent world view. Just ask it about the things it tells you, and it will quickly start to directly contradicting itself, like "A is true" and then say "A is not true". Humans don't do that so blatantly, unless they have Alzheimer's or similar which makes it hard to tell if the human is still intelligent or not. Gpt-3 is like looking up random parts of the internet with your queries, and changing them a little will lead you to a site that tells a completely different story. That is the most reasonable explanation to why it behaves as above.