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> I'll admit that I haven't even figured out what it means for anything to "know" something. I think that a core part of what it means to "know" something, is
by okamiueru 4y ago
> I'll admit that I haven't even figured out what it means for anything to "know" something.
I think that a core part of what it means to "know" something, is also an understanding of "not knowing". If you provide ChatGPT with insufficient data, it doesn't ask you to clarify anything to fill in the dots or try to eliminate a possible misunderstanding. It just, as you nicely put it, completes the sentence as best it can.
Ask a curious human a logical question or puzzle, and they'll often reply with a bunch of follow ups to fix what they assume to be a lack of knowing.
- dns_snek 4y agoI've had an opposite experience when trying to get it to solve a puzzle. First it said that it didn't have a certain piece of information which I promptly provided, then it started going in circles, bullshitting about different pieces of "missing" information, all of which had been provided. It's really good at faking logical reasoning abilities up to a certain point but it very quickly falls apart and starts returning nonsense.
- okamiueru 4y agoI see. I suppose what I mean is that it doesn't have a conceptual model of the what it knows and doesn't know. It doesn't try to improve upon that conceptual model because it knows that it needs to, it just maps sentences that typically require a follow up question, with a follow up question.