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> It understands you as a pronoun that refers to it No, there is no mechanism for this. ChatGPT is completing text. It has no notion of self. My question is
by colanderman 4y ago
> It understands you as a pronoun that refers to it
No, there is no mechanism for this. ChatGPT is completing text. It has no notion of self. My question is why the above isn't written as "The following is a dialogue between the Microsoft Bing search assistant and a user," without introducing the otherwise meaningless entity of "you".
- basch 4y agoBecause the user will address it as “you”. Think of it like a variable. You = Bing Chat
- colanderman 4y agoBing Chat will likewise address the user as "you". It's a terrible variable.
- basch 4y agoThat’s how pronouns work in English. It’s an English predictor. It can keep track of the speaker and who is saying you. It appears to make the models perform better.