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Re:Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT by dvt on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:24PM (#33858622)
> My argument is that the underlying processes don’t matter as long as results are classified as output of an intelligence - because that’s the only way I can judge it. What it is under the hood is… less important.

That view is called "behaviorism" and is not really taken particularly seriously exactly because it's not very useful in truly understanding what is happening under the hood (which, as a curious species, we deem important). It's like not caring how electromagnetism works because the behavior of "the positive side of this chunk of rock is attracted to the negative side" is good enough.

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Re:Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT by int_19h on Monday December 05, 2022 @09:21PM (#33875066)
We plainly don't know anywhere near enough about what's happening under the hood in our own heads to judge based on that, so in practice, "does it behave intelligent?" is the best test that we actually have available.
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