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Re:GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms by jaredtn on Monday September 07, 2020 @01:56PM (#24401169)
“GPT-3 has stated an incorrect fact, therefore GPT-3 is unable to truly reason about anything.” - qeternity

Here we see that qeternity has stated an incorrect fact, therefore qeternity is unable to truly reason about anything :)

There is some fascinating work demonstrating generalization on arithmetic problems GPT-3 has never seen before, what do you think about that?

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Re:GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms by qeternity on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:34PM (#24401468)
And once again, generalization does not imply reasoning. A linear regression is able to generalize on data it hasn’t seen before but that doesn’t mean it’s reasoning about anything.

GPT-3 is just the biggest exercise in curve fitting ever conducted.

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Re:GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms by 0-_-0 on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:12PM (#24402935)
Linear regression is reasoning, but on a very small scale.
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Re:GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms by throwaway2048 on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:15PM (#24403730)
GPT-3 Objectively does not reason about anything, thats the point, it emits patterns.
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