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Probably worth noting that it may not show its true reasoning, rather it immediately arrives at an answer and then proceeds to add an explanation which seems re
by doff_ 4y ago
Probably worth noting that it may not show its true reasoning, rather it immediately arrives at an answer and then proceeds to add an explanation which seems reasonable to it.
- yowzadave 4y agoThat was how it appeared to me. A Google search for "cryptic crossword" and the clue itself would in all likelihood turn up the correct answer as the top result, so getting the answer correct is a less impressive feat (assuming ChatGPT has access to the internet). Most humans would think doing the puzzle that way was cheating.
- jameshart 4y agoChatGPT does not have access to the internet. It was trained on a corpus of data drawn from online, but it is not querying the internet live.
- thefreeman 4y agowhat do you think google is doing when you query it?
- chaxor 4y agoIsn't Google index much *much* larger though? There's a large amount of compression going on here (of course, not to say it hasn't probably memorized certain texts obviously [both important/factual snippets and less important bits as well]). That does seem to be the huge difference here which yields the wonderful features of this system.
- jameshart 4y agoSomewhat fair. Though I think there's a difference between having 'the internet' stored in a preindexed form against which you can perform direct exhaustive lookups, and having instead a set of weights that were produced by having once been exposed to a large amount of the data on the internet. But you're right to point out that the difference between them is not actually that great, and both of them are really a form of 'recall'.
- FeepingCreature 4y agoWorth noting to me that humans also engage in backwards reasoning.
- phonebucket 4y agoHumans do engage with backwards reasoning. But they are also capable of checking that the constructed justification does then imply the conclusion. ChatGPT apparently is not doing this on the basis of these examples.
- FeepingCreature 4y agoYep, I agree. I just think GPT is closer to human thinking than we appreciate, while still lacking critical components. We can think logically and symbolically. But we mostly don't, and the parts where we don't are where most of the cognitive work happens.
- ehsankia 4y agoYeah, half the cryptics I solve is by looking at synonyms of the defition path and trying to backsolve the riddle part.
- stavros 4y agoMuch like people!