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> ChatGPT does not know more than you. The fallacy is always that you compare AI to a human without literature references and a database. If the human needs a

by ben_w 4mo ago

> ChatGPT does not know more than you. The fallacy is always that you compare AI to a human without literature references and a database. If the human needs a literature references and a database to answer a question, can they be said to "know" the answer? ChatGPT doesn't have an endgame database for chess. Despite having "read" all the literature about chess, it will hallucinate the board state if you try to play chess with it directly. But it "knows" how to write a chess engine that would beat me… and more than that, one which would beat a competent player. It is a very weird and spiky form of intelligence, but it's also definitely not just a database.

1Bas-12g 4mo ago
If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess? If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material?
- ben_w 4mo ago
  > If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess? It would be very impressive to watch this, but irrelevant: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22table+base%22&t=osx&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22table+base%22&t=osx&ia=images&i... > If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material? If you need to have a prefrontal cortex (RAM) and hippocampus (disk access), same question. (The answer is "yes, obviously that's fine, why would you even ask").
  - 1Bas-12g 4mo ago
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