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Re:Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation by version_five on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:43PM (#35345888)
That's exactly what it is despite the "gpt bros" playing it up. It's literally a scaled up Eliza, that has billions of substitutions instead of tens. People just get dazzled by it and read too far in to what it's doing
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Re:Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation by nealabq on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:28PM (#35346518)
> It's literally a scaled up Eliza

It's literally a Chinese Room. (Unless you speak Mandarin?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

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Re:Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation by baq on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:03PM (#35346175)
It’s just a Beowulf cluster of Markov chains.

And yet it blows everything before it out of the water.

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