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The 4yo language abilities are a combination of spoken language and visual/manual interaction with the physical world. So there's a lot of multimodal learning g
by JohnCClarke 4y ago
The 4yo language abilities are a combination of spoken language and visual/manual interaction with the physical world. So there's a lot of multimodal learning going on and visual and tactile input undoubetedly counts for a lot.
I've just had GPT-4 generate a lot of Golang code. Boilerplate, but real code nonetheless. Did it perfectly, first time round. No typos, got the comments right. Much faster than any intern. No 4yo can do that.
- ak_111 4y agoExactly we have established there are things blind four year old can do and learn many orders of magnitude more efficiently than chatgpt (acquire and manipulate human language), and there are things chatgpt can do that even an average forty year old would struggle to learn (write perfect boilerplate Golang). The two intelligences are not the same, the way they are trained in particular is vastly different. Also the fact that humans learn some language manipulation (or that it gives them such tremendous efficiency in learning language) from tactile experience is superficially plausible but it hasn't been demonstrated yet to any interesting level. Why does feeling the weight of a stone in your hand make you better at parsing and understanding grammar or envision abstract concepts? Also, most animals have as much or even more tactile experience (including primates which have similar brains) and yet this doesn't seem to provide them with any kind of abilities similar to manipulating human language.