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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by danaris on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:18AM (#34820671)
No; what we need, in order to be willing to believe that understanding is happening, is to know that the underlying structures fundamentally allow that.

ChatGPT's underlying structures do not. What it does, effectively, is look at the totality of the conversation thus far, and use the characters and words in it, combined with its training data, to predict, purely statistically, what characters would constitute an appropriate response.

I know that some people like to argue that what humans do cannot be meaningfully distinguished from this, but I reject this notion utterly. I know that my own thought processes do not resemble this procedure, and I believe that other people's are similar.

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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by dclowd9901 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:40PM (#34829023)
“Thought processes” is a funny term, don’t you think, for something that is somehow distinguishable from processes that we’ve designed and somehow understand down to the cellular (node) level.

It’s all emergent behavior from a system that behaves under process.

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