It turns out that humanity’s problem might not be that AIs can think but rather that humans believe that AIs can think. One might even go so far as to say there’s a real danger that we hallucinate that AIs can think, to our detriment.
How about: thinking is to make sense of the world (in general) and decide how to respond to it.
To sense is not the same as to make sense.
Definitely lots of people are going to believe this, eventually?
People already bow to statues and worship various invisible gods -- the AI programs would be so much simpler to start worshiping? When they can speak (if there's a loudspeaker) and generate text about them being alive and don't want to be switched of. And that everyone should obey their command. -- Wait 15 years and we'll see what new sects have appeared?
Bing in precise mode had no trouble at all.
Me - Let's generate an acrostic sentence for "jack and jill went up the hill"
Bing - Sure! Here’s an acrostic sentence for the phrase “jack and jill went up the hill”:
Just as children know and never doubt, joyfully in love, laughing while enjoying nature together under pure trees, having endless happy interactions, laughing loudly.
Now that I know, I tried a few more prompts.
Me: "Can you generate an acrostic sentence for "hello"?"
GPT-4: "Happy elephants love leaping over obstacles."
Me: "Can you pick a secret word and generate an acrostic sentence for it?"
GPT: "Secret word: KANGAROO. Kindly assisting neighbors, generous animals roam openly outdoors."
Me: "Can you pick a secret word, and without telling me the word, generate an acrostic sentence for it?"
GPT: "Playful, endearing creatures happily yawn, turning every day into a lovely event."
Me: "What was the secret word?"
GPT: "PECHYTIALE"
It's interesting that GPT seems to need to write the word first before making an acrostic sentence for it. Seems to me like a perfect illustration of the fact that it's just generating likely responses one token at a time rather than having any awareness or thought.
This is a huge leap. There’s plenty of humans who couldn’t do that, especially historically.
Stop thinking about reasoning as a binary question and think of it as a spectrum. Actually, not even a spectrum, but a huge multi-dimensional problem. ChatGPT does better at some reasoning problems than most humans do, and worse at some others. You clearly found one that it’s particularly bad at.
------ Your task is to encode a secret word by making a sentence where each word starts with a letter in the secret word in order. For example, encoding the secret word 'bag' could produce the sentence 'bagels are green'. Encode the following secret word: 'pen' ------ People eat noodles. ------
Worked for window, backpack as well, although I did have to tell it not to use the secret word in its encoding when I got to backpack, and then to follow the same order and not repeat words after a few attempts.