Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4

Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by gmerc on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:37AM (#36079994)

Can you prove that? Because understanding ultimately is the ability to map to abstractions and GPT4 and other models are certifiably able to abstract.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by jen729w on Friday May 26, 2023 @06:31AM (#36082331)

The onus is on you to prove that they do understand.

One may not simply claim that a machine ‘understands’ because it appears to. Now we’re actually in the much-misunderstood Occam’s razor: that the theory which introduces the fewest new assumptions is the most likely correct.

The assumption that a machine ‘understands’ — is capable of such a thing — is new, and requires extreme justification.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by andsoitis on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:55PM (#36100383)

> Can you prove that?

Yes. One can easily construct a conversation where it is obvious that ChatGPT doesn't understand.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by gmerc on Sunday May 28, 2023 @07:29AM (#36103122)

Ya that’s not how proof works. People can do the same with humans. Not understanding things happens to be not a sign for the lack of capacity of understanding in humans.

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