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Stochastic Parrot == Philosophical Zombie Same concept, same difference.

• kalkin 4y ago
  Not really. The point of the philosophical zombie idea is that they'd be indistinguishable in behavior from conscious people. Part of the point of the stochastic parrots is that supposedly they can't accomplish the same things as genuine intelligence. That's testable.
  • JieJie 4y ago
    Fair point. I'm not sure if LLMs like GPT-4 haven't passed that test, but you're right about that particular distinction. I think the larger point, that we don't have very reliable tests for these things, as we're finding out with the testing results that GPT-4 has been showing, is still valid; leading us to have difficulty telling whether GPT-4 is actually intelligent or if it is coming to its intelligent through other means. I think in that way the distinctions are the same.