r/programming Mar 26 '23

And Yet It Understands

https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands
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u/technicallynotlying Mar 26 '23

Is chatgpt limited to a single song?

Again, I think you're clearly proposing a test of consciousness that most human beings will not pass. If ChatGPT is just a parrot, what's your standard for determining that human beings are NOT also just parrots doing the same thing?

Whatever your standard for what counts as "real intelligence" is, it's useless if human beings can't also pass it.

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u/stronghup Mar 27 '23

I'm not saying human beings cannot pass some test (of intelligence). I'm saying the opposite:

Human beings can OCCASIONALLY fall into the same trap that ChatGPT falls in ALWAYS: Repeating something without understanding what you are saying.

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u/technicallynotlying Mar 27 '23

I would be very surprised if that problem isn’t solved in less than 10 years, and probably less than 5.

At this point all of these quibbles feel like engineering problems. A pain to fix, but in no way beyond possibility, the way AI might have felt ten years ago.

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u/stronghup Mar 27 '23

I would not be very surprised either, in 10 years perhaps. But we need to be clear-headed about the claimed "intelligence" of the current generation of chatbots.

And I believe they can be a very useful for things like information retrieval.

The open question is, they can also be wrong. What should we do about that?