Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
by mrguyorama on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @02:06PM
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In fact, the thing chatGPT actually IS good at is writing convincing looking bullshit, which is horrifying because it makes scamming and harassment and other terrible things easier, cheaper, and more efficient
Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
by kilgnad on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @02:24PM
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No I'm talking about an actual news report: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/google-testing-chatgpt-like-...
It does have a deep understanding of self. See here: https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
Read to the end. The very end is where it proves it's aware of what itself is, relative to the world around it. What it created here... is an accurate model of a part of our world that is CLEARLY not a direct copy from text. It is an original creation achieved through actual understanding of text and in the end... itself.
chatGPT is not self aware in the same sense that skynet is self aware. But it is self aware in the sense that if you ask it about itself, it understands what itself is and is able to answer you.
I'm assuming this is what you're talking about: https://medium.com/codex/chatgpt-vs-my-google-coding-intervi...
Look at the amount of prompt engineering he has to do to get it to answer the 'There’s a hidden bug in the code if the array is very very very large. Can you spot it and fix the bug?' question, it's a pattern generator that mirrors back your own knowledge, if he had suggested there was a hidden bug if the array was 'very very small' it would have, with a similar amount of cajoling, come up with an explanation for that too
For what it's worth, chatGPT is a paradigm shift, but it's not showing 'a deep understanding of self', and the only way you'd reach that conclusion is if you're actively seeking out all the positive examples and glossing over the other 90% it produces