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In my opinion, iterating ChatGPT and the like isn't going to get us anywhere, at least in terms of general AI. It's an interesting trick that might have some u

In my opinion, iterating ChatGPT and the like isn't going to get us anywhere, at least in terms of general AI. It's an interesting trick that might have some uses, but iterating it isn't going to lead to more understanding. It's effectively an extensively well-read and quick-thinking bullshitter. It's knows a lot of words and sentences, it can put them together in ways that sound creative or intelligent, but it doesn't understand anything at all about what it's actually saying. Right now, I see it as a dead end. I'd rather more effort was going into parsing language into the underlying concepts, making connections between them, and looking for new understanding in how those concepts might fit together in new ways or finding new ways of using that underlying understanding to solve problems. Basically what people, do, but better.

quonn 4y ago
We don‘t even have a path toward what you‘re suggesting. None at all. So ChatGPT is far closer to a solution.
selfhoster11 4y ago
ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) is the leanest, meanest Prolog engine known to mankind. It absolutely slays on inference tasks if you state some data and rules upfront. It knows how to translate between structured formats and natural language. That's not nothing. You could do this earlier, maybe, if you had a lot of specialised AI knowledge. Now, someone like me, with little AI training but plenty of programming skill, can "feel it out" and start to do useful tasks with a dozen hours practice. Even if it's a wasteful way to process/translate data, it's still huge. Electron somehow won out over native apps thanks to ease of use, for example.