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You could deconstruct humans the same way. It's all biological cells with DNA which weren't even designed for anything but just evolved with natural selection.
by machina_ex_deus 4y ago
You could deconstruct humans the same way. It's all biological cells with DNA which weren't even designed for anything but just evolved with natural selection. This species of apes started speaking only very recently, in evolutionary timescales, and the DNA was definitely not designed to do anything that humans are mostly doing right now. Nobody is guaranteeing anything, most of these apes actually suck at math extremely hard. They only gained awareness into the existing structure in the funny sounds they make recently.
But hey, things can just work and the golem can overcome it's creator or surprise it. All of the things you said don't matter.
The writer of this post is just another ape sitting with his phone in his hand making funny gestures on a touch screen. He got to the point of communicating with you after hearing similar apes make similar sounds, somehow connected those sounds to funny shapes as a little ape, and then learned to click those squiggly shapes as they show up on his "phone" in belief that another ape somewhere will recognize them.
Some apes do this so that other apes will click a triangle. But you can't guarantee that other apes really mean what you think those squiggly lines really mean, or that they aren't all doing it for the triangles.
Those triangles really are a mystery, given the design of those apes didn't have any evolutionary reason to seek triangle clicking.
To make my point instead of writing more squiggly lines, if you deconstruct something and then don't understand it, that's on you. Things can just work, they don't owe an explanation to you. If you have good explanation of when they work, I'm interested. If you don't, that's only reflecting on you.
I also try to heavily imply that if you generalize a human to an ape and then get astonished at the sounds he make, maybe that was an over generalization that missed something important.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoThe context in which the neutral net interacts with text is completely different from the context in which humans interact with text. Humans are interacting with the symbolic representation itself. ChatGPT cannot do that. ChatGPT instead models the semantic relationships between symbols, and interacts with that. True AI may still be potentially founded on neutral nets, but the context problem definitely needs to be resolved.