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> I wouldn’t be surprised if we live in such a world in the next decade. We won't live in that world in the next decade or even in the next 100 years. The tech
by CyberRabbi 4y ago
> I wouldn’t be surprised if we live in such a world in the next decade.
We won't live in that world in the next decade or even in the next 100 years. The technology upon which GPT is built is a dead-end in terms of human-level intelligence.
GPT is an elaborate parrot. As convincing as it is, it's not actually fully capable of doing most if not all tasks that competent humans can do. The largest takeaway for me is that it has shown that intelligence can be mimicked pretty well and perhaps many people are more like parrots than they are "intelligent" creatures.
- School-Cotton 4y agoI challenge you to explain how an entity that isn’t capable of something we might reasonably call “creativity” or “intelligence” produced this output. Was it in a corpus somewhere? (Google translate it if you can’t read French). The “///“ were inserted by me as paragraph breaks because otherwise HN eats them. > Write a poem in a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French > Voici un poème en un langage inventé Qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au français Mais les mots sont différents, les sons uniques Et leur sens mystérieux et inconnu /// J'ai marché dans les rues de la ville J'ai vu les gens qui vivaient leur vie J'ai entendu les bruits et les rires Et j'ai senti la chaleur de la vie /// Mais quand j'ai regardé les mots sur les affiches Je n'ai pas compris ce qu'ils disaient Et j'ai eu l'impression d'être perdu Dans un monde étrange et inconnu /// Alors j'ai fermé les yeux et j'ai écouté Le son des mots dans ma tête Et j'ai commencé à rêver D'un monde où les mots avaient du sens /// Un monde où je pourrais parler Et être compris par tous Un monde où les mots seraient magiques Et où les rêves seraient réels.
- fancifalmanima 4y agoI threw that poem into google translate. I think it was actually just French? It didn't actually fulfill your prompt. Is your claim that it's ability to write a poem is a sign of creativity and intelligence? A language model writing a poem is one of the things I'd expect a language model to be able to do. Certainly impressive, but not one of the particularly interesting or surprising things I've seen GPT-3/4 do. Here is a poem in an invented language Which looks like the French But the words are different, the sounds unique And their mysterious and unknown meaning I walked the streets of the city I saw the people living their life I heard the noises and the laughter And I felt the warmth of life But when I looked at the words on the posters I didn't understand what they were saying And I felt like I was lost In a strange and unknown world So I closed my eyes and listened The sound of the words in my head And I started to dream Of a world where words had meaning A world where I could talk And be understood by all A world where words would be magic And where dreams would be real.
- smorrebrod 4y agoIt is actually just French.
- blargey 4y agoI don’t understand how GPT poetry is supposed to refute the standard refrain that GPT is a statistical parrot that has “learned” what next-word keeps a text sounding poemy. It operates on the same principles as when it composes boilerplate business emails or physics theories. Never mind that you asked for fake-French and got actual-French talking about fake-French.
- lm28469 4y agolmao this is the best example of chat GPT not working at all, this isn't "a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French", it _is_ French, and it doesn't even rhyme, because chat GPT can't rhyme in French for some reason source: I'm French