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This is a description of the difference in how and what it learns rather than how it thinks. It doesn’t really "experience" on its own so it’s only parroting se

This is a description of the difference in how and what it learns rather than how it thinks. It doesn’t really "experience" on its own so it’s only parroting second-hand knowledge. Asking it for its opinion on something and it will give you an opinion. It might be nobody’s opinion or a common opinion but it seems to "know" how to form the sentence to communicate the opinion. Maybe "not as smart as an average human adult" is the bar most people expect but it still seems smarter than some dumb pets I’ve known. At the very least it can communicate with me in my language even if it’s dumb as a rock most of the time. I could be convinced that an adult is typing what their 7 year-old is telling them to write. (Not really but you get the idea. Maybe if the 7 year-old just knew all of wikiedia.)

didibus 3y ago
That's why I agree that you can decide to consider it a form of intelligence. Just like some people find Cancer cells evading the immune system, going into hiding, etc. is a form of intelligence. But it's not human intelligence. Because of some of what I said. Your 7 year old might not make fully cohesive sentences all the time, or know all of wikipedia, and would fail to answer some of the reasoning questions GPT4 can answer, but it sure will have a lot of strong opinions. And it kind of makes sense, you think about what it is, it learned a multi-variate, multi-dimensional deterministic function over a corpus of text embeddings that predicts the answer to a prompt, which it too learned from human guided prompting examples. Then it mimics "creativity" with added random seeds. And it kind of act as you'd expect from that. I'd also say, you'd expect it to be able to get smarter on its own. But it currently can't and needs the team of scientists to work on GPT5 on it's behalf. It's also not yet smart enough that it could figure out how to make its better GPT5 future iteration.

didibus 3y ago

That's why I agree that you can decide to consider it a form of intelligence. Just like some people find Cancer cells evading the immune system, going into hiding, etc. is a form of intelligence. But it's not human intelligence. Because of some of what I said. Your 7 year old might not make fully cohesive sentences all the time, or know all of wikipedia, and would fail to answer some of the reasoning questions GPT4 can answer, but it sure will have a lot of strong opinions. And it kind of makes sense, you think about what it is, it learned a multi-variate, multi-dimensional deterministic function over a corpus of text embeddings that predicts the answer to a prompt, which it too learned from human guided prompting examples. Then it mimics "creativity" with added random seeds. And it kind of act as you'd expect from that. I'd also say, you'd expect it to be able to get smarter on its own. But it currently can't and needs the team of scientists to work on GPT5 on it's behalf. It's also not yet smart enough that it could figure out how to make its better GPT5 future iteration.