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It could be. Maybe "understanding" is not so much more than predicting what's to come next with reasonable accuracy. Maybe LLMs understand better than we think.
by psiops 4y ago
It could be. Maybe "understanding" is not so much more than predicting what's to come next with reasonable accuracy. Maybe LLMs understand better than we think.
- nsbk 4y agoThis idea is both fascinating and terrifying in equal parts
- gremlinsinc 4y agoThink back to cavemen days, or before actual spoken languages. You pointed and said oooh oooh... Still communication, but you couldn't wonder about the stars in the skies because you didn't even have words for what those were, or a clue about much, because prior generations of info wasn't passed down as easily as it is today. Entire generations of info is now instantly at our fingertips whenever we want it, even w/ creative spins thanks to GPT models. Language is the glue that holds up consciousness/sentience, it is intelligence. It's very hard to be intelligent without language, or the ability to understand language. A lot of learning deficits are because of ones inability to understand the other person (Teacher, etc, or focus on them long enough to understand what they're saying), I think language itself could turn most things into AI or just I, perhaps anything that can communicate and build language could be intelligent regardless if it's silcon or carbon. There's a lot of 'understanding' we glean from other senses, from what we see, etc... but we only know a tree is a tree because we've been told that (reinforcement learning), and because language exists to tell us that over and over again. So vision, audio, etc are all still language-based.