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Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 7 months ago

i guess it comes down to a philosophical question

no, it doesn't, and it's not a philosophical question (and neither is this a question of philosophy).

the software simply has no cognitive capabilities.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure I agree, but then it goes to my second question:

What's the effective difference?

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 16 points 7 months ago

“(…) perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, comprehension, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making (…)”

[-] braxy29@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

don't know why you got downvoted, an LLM is essentially a chinese room, and whether such a room "knows" is still the question.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago

no, it fucking isn't. (see the postscript in linked article.)

[-] petrol_sniff_king 10 points 7 months ago

Thanks for that read.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago

Good god it’s a hydra

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago

don’t know why you got banned

[-] techMayhem@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Someone in the chinese room would not know anything about their in- or output. Sure you memorized that a certain set of symbols means your output should contain another set of symbols, but what do you actually "know" about these symbols.

But you have no idea what it's about. Is it a greeting? A recipe for some pasta? Instructions to build a bomb? Could be anything.

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