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> Most people don't understand that ChatGPT has no idea what they're talking about. I wonder why people keep saying this. Is it some type of psychological defe
by rafaelero 4y ago
> Most people don't understand that ChatGPT has no idea what they're talking about.
I wonder why people keep saying this. Is it some type of psychological defense to future AI displacement?
- hprotagonist 4y agomaybe, but it's also just the fact of the matter.
- rafaelero 4y agoThat's not even a testable claim. What does it even mean to "not know what it is talking about"? If OP tried to operationalize its beliefs by making some prediction, like listing tasks that AI will never be able to reproduce because it "doesn't know what it is talking about", then that would be a discussion.
- hprotagonist 4y agohttp://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627 http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627
- fwsgonzo 4y agoIt definitely could be - it's on every thread here and on reddit.
- DrSiemer 4y agoNo, it is an accurate evaluation of what ChatGPT does. The model is not trying to explain something to you, it is trying to convince itself that what it is writing looks like it could have been written by a human. There is no logical thinking involved. Output can appear to be real communication, but it's basically just a very advanced trick, that has some serious drawbacks.
- jmugan 4y agoIt's because ChatGPT's knowledge doesn't come through interaction with the world. Words mean things to us because they point to world interactions. I saw a demo where ChatGPT could create a VM. It could be trained to interact directly with a VM, send commands to an interpreter. In this case, it would understand the response of the VM, although it wouldn't understand the design behind the VM, because humans did that based on interaction with the physical world.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago> It's because ChatGPT's knowledge doesn't come through interaction with the world. We don't interact with the world directly, either. All we have are signals mediated through our nervous system.
- jmugan 4y agoSure, but what happens when you touch a hot stove?
- Turing_Machine 4y agoThe built-in weights in your brain are modified to discourage you from doing that again?
- jmugan 4y agoRight. Those are tied via evolution to the dynamics of the physical world. We can simulate the physical world and learn from that, but there needs to be a there there. Language assumes the listener already has that understanding.
- jmugan 4y agoSorry, I meant to say that it hurts. That's the dynamics of the world I'm talking about.
- rafaelero 4y ago