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I keep being reminded of Paul Graham's "plan for spam", in that he devised a simple statistical evaluator, and was surprised that it worked so well to distingui
by tjr 4y ago
I keep being reminded of Paul Graham's "plan for spam", in that he devised a simple statistical evaluator, and was surprised that it worked so well to distinguish ham from spam.
These AI tools have been trained on a great deal of written language artifacts and exhibit a surprising level of what appears to be concept understanding. Perhaps the real surprise is that language conveys concepts better than we previously thought?
- maister 4y ago> the real surprise is that language conveys concepts better than we previously thought? Is it really that much of a surprise? Isn't the whole purpose of language to transport concepts? I mean, our brains are not directly connected to each other, yet you just transferred a concept (which was a result of your thinking and understanding) to my brain by using language.
- glenstein 4y agoI take them to be making the point that a lot of comments in these threads have said something like "yeah it could do language but it doesn't understand the concepts." I think it's probably been one of the most popular opinions espoused in these threads if I had to estimate. Although I do agree with you that it shouldn't be surprising.