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I think this is an important point that was not clearly articulated in the article, and is causing some misunderstanding. the author said "alternate universe" b

I think this is an important point that was not clearly articulated in the article, and is causing some misunderstanding. the author said "alternate universe" but I don't think that was clear to people. The machine isn't actually connecting to the internet and pinging an IP address. It's generating a string that looks like what was present in it's training data. It's not executing the code at all, it's not generating a Linux shell environment, the JSON it returns is nothing more than a part of the language you and I speak to it (to give it characteristics it doesnt have because I have no way of explaining otherwise; there's no such thing as "you", "I" or "to it" in reality).

kilgnad 4y ago
No. I'm not mistaken here. Most people aren't. Clearly it's not creating a full bash shell and operating system. What it's doing is imitating one in the same way you can imitate a shell with a keyboard if given instructions to do so. Here's the thing. You as a human are obviously not compiling an entire OS in your head to do such a task. But if you wanted to emulate a terminal, then on some level you need to understand how it all works from a more symbolic higher level. My claim is that chatGPT understands this in a way remarkably similar to how we understand things.