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No? If that's how sentence forming worked it would be impossible to count backwards, or count at all for that matter.
by 15457345234 3y ago
No? If that's how sentence forming worked it would be impossible to count backwards, or count at all for that matter.
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoWhy? Numbers have directionality relative to the species.
- stavros 3y agoMe: Count backwards from ten GPT-4: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Me: Count backwards from a million to 999990 GPT-4: 1,000,000, 999,999, 999,998, 999,997, 999,996, 999,995, 999,994, 999,993, 999,992, 999,991, 999,990 I don't know about that.
- 15457345234 3y agoI don't know how that connects in any way to what I and the commenter preceding me wrote.
- stavros 3y agoYou said that sentences aren't formed by probability from an existing corpus, as that method can't count backwards. GPT-4, a system based on such a method, can count backwards, thus disproving your claim.
- woodruffw 3y agoI’m pretty sure the person you’re responding to is saying that counting is a formal operation with a formal definition, and that when GPT “counts” it isn’t doing that formal operation. The fact that it can semi-reliably emit ordered sequences isn’t counterevidence, for the same reason that memorizing the order of 0 to 100 isn’t evidence of an understanding of the inductive structure of counting.
- jacquesm 3y agoHow long a sequence of numbers (or how many sequences of different kinds of numbers) would it take to convince someone that it does do a formal operation? Kids don't do a 'formal operation' when they count from 1 to 10, they just recite a list they've memorized. If they can do it from 1 to 1,000,000 you can be fairly sure it is no longer a memorized list.
- 15457345234 3y ago> thus disproving your claim Is there an alternative conclusion which you could reach here?
- smohare 3y ago[dead]