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> it appears to have no underlying concept of logic, physics, society, etc. Sure. ChatGPT is quite limited and gives incorrect and contradictory responses at t
by janalsncm 3y ago
> it appears to have no underlying concept of logic, physics, society, etc.
Sure. ChatGPT is quite limited and gives incorrect and contradictory responses at times. And most importantly (imo) it is unable to update an interpretable knowledge base as real life facts change. But the fact that a particular instance of LLM has this unwanted behavior is not categorical evidence that all LLMs will show the behavior. GPT2 is pretty pathetic compared to GPT3, and ChatGPT is even more impressive. I’m agnostic as to whether statistical language models can ever overcome their current limitations, but given previous emergent behavior I wouldn’t rule it out.
GPT4’s context window is something like 32k tokens. Someday that may be orders of magnitude larger, and it may be possible to fit an up to date copy of all of Wikipedia inside (or a condensed version), as well as the current conversation. It might seem crazy but it’s foreseeable.
- namaria 3y ago> given previous emergent behavior I wouldn’t rule it out. I find this an interesting turn of phrase, because "emergent behavior" is often used by those holding a reductionist view to hand wave away complexity that cannot be reduced to the analyzed elements. In a way it makes me think of Greek sophists, who would cogently argue for two opposing view points and making a convincing case for both. It's way easier to make a verbal case about something than to prove it true, or false.