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Do you compare its conversational skills to a smart person or a dumb person? Because the result of the comparison will be very different, I believe. In other wo

Do you compare its conversational skills to a smart person or a dumb person? Because the result of the comparison will be very different, I believe. In other words: on a blind Turing test, if you can't tell apart ChatGPT from a dumb human, is the dumb human not generally intelligent? He also doesn't comprehend what he's saying once you get beyond basic things, and he's still vastly smarter than an ant. I'm sure you've talked to people before who used certain terms but it was obvious to you they didn't actually know what those terms meant. They're able to use them without understanding the concept. Just like ChatGPT, only that it's more likely to sound like ChatGPT understands the concept. What I'm trying to say: humans have a very clear limit to what concepts they can grasp. They can punch above their weight by pretending to understand a concept, but the proof is in the pudding, so unless they're able to apply it to solve problems, they haven't understood it. And even if they do understand something, they'll make mistakes. If the test for intelligence is essentially 'can perform certain tasks with a maximum error rate of x, and can learn to perform new tasks', does 'understanding' really matter? And can you even really test for understanding, aren't you only testing for 'gives answers to questions that signal understanding'?

Retric 4y ago
Objectively its conversational skills are so bad it’s below the level where humans get institutionalized due to severe disabilities. I don’t have specific level beyond that because it’s deficiencies don’t map to human condition. As to a touring test given enough time and freedom in questions you can easily tell it’s a machine so it just fails. That’s the thing, the touring test isn’t can you tell if this is a machine in 7 seconds while talking about baseball it’s can to tell period.

Retric 4y ago

Objectively its conversational skills are so bad it’s below the level where humans get institutionalized due to severe disabilities. I don’t have specific level beyond that because it’s deficiencies don’t map to human condition. As to a touring test given enough time and freedom in questions you can easily tell it’s a machine so it just fails. That’s the thing, the touring test isn’t can you tell if this is a machine in 7 seconds while talking about baseball it’s can to tell period.