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Re:And yet It Understands by glenstein on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:07AM (#35313596)
>LLMs deliver mastery of natural language that would normally be a signal for a highly intelligent human. While in other ways they’re less intelligent than a cat.

Just as an example to illustrate your point, yesterday saw a Twitter meme that had multiple overlapping Venn diagrams, where Chicago was not only in a Venn diagram for a type of deep dish pizza, but is also a city, and is also a play, and also a format for writing academic citations, and so there were several different Venn diagrams all overlapping with Chicago, and then those the Venn Diagrams overlapped with each other in humorous ways.

I saw that there was an opportunity to add one additional Venn diagram on top of all of the others if it were possible to find any possible connection between 'Sicilian' and 'AMA'.

I tried asking chat GPT if it could think of one, and it wasn't able to. So then I stepped back a step, and asked if it could think of a Venn diagram that would include both chicago, and rent, under any understanding of those respective two terms. But it couldn't do that either, although they can both be understood to be Broadway plays.

Re:And yet It Understands by ivxvm on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:23AM (#35313699)
Maybe it simply doesn't understand Venn diagrams well - after all, it's a visual concept.
Re:And yet It Understands by glenstein on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:35AM (#35313800)
My thinking is that it relates to organizing concepts into categories, which can challenge a system to prove how deep it is capable of going into abstract associations, and searching through a full range of possible abstract associations.

I suspect ChatGPT probably can be reasonably effective at understanding, or pretending to understand numerous other visual concepts.

Re:And yet It Understands by ilaksh on Sunday March 26, 2023 @01:16PM (#35316893)
Did you try asking GPT-4? It has a significantly higher IQ.
Re:And yet It Understands by glenstein on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#35317493)
Yeah, it was GPT-4.
Re:And yet It Understands by SomewhatLikely on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:07PM (#35320139)
I had success with this prompt: Are Chicago and Rent both a type of the same thing?

It said they're both well known musicals. Even with this structure it didn't come up with something for your original pair though.