Re:Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large La...
by avgcorrection on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:04PM
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> (though in general I think the favored “alignment” frames of the LessWrong community are not even wrong).
The Turing Test doesn’t test humans. So you cannot use it to show any properties about humans.
Next!
> The topmost poster is simply assuming that language models can't possibly understand the same way a human does without relying on any kind of "test" at all, which I think is the real scientific dead end here.
Re:Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large La...
by shawnz on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:25PM
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If you are actually interested in this problem why not try interpreting what I'm saying a bit more charitably and not waste your time replying with snark?
The Turing Test doesn’t test humans. So you cannot use it to show any properties about humans.
Next!
> The topmost poster is simply assuming that language models can't possibly understand the same way a human does without relying on any kind of "test" at all, which I think is the real scientific dead end here.
Sounds unfalsifiable. So yes.