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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by titzer on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:06PM (#35780546)
I feel like lost in this conversation is that ChatGPT is incredibly good at writing English. It basically never makes grammatical mistakes, it doesn't spew gibberish, and for the most part has extremely well-structured replies. The replies might be bullshit or hallucinations, but it's not gibberish.

It's kind of breathtaking that we forgot about that being hard.

The goalposts are moving again.

BTW, it has passed many standardized tests under the same circumstances as a human.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by dragonwriter on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:10PM (#35780588)
> BTW, it has passed many standardized tests under the same circumstances as a human.

No, it hasn’t, and it is physically impossible for it to. The extent to which the differences are material may be debatable, but this claim is simply false.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by cjbprime on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:32PM (#35782580)
It would be a useful contribution to explain what you think the material differences are, rather than referencing them through innuendo, as if anyone knows what you mean.
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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by jrk on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:44PM (#35783109)
I am not the original poster, but I assumed they meant as an embodied entity, interacting in the physical world.
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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by bbor on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:06PM (#35782812)
Technically no two sets of circumstances can EVER be the same ;). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Panta_rhei
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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by hammyhavoc on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:46AM (#35783803)
Some of the replies are gibberish, especially once you get into technical subjects that it has very little training data on. It kitbashes words together that actually mean nothing, which is no surprise given that it's an LLM.
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