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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by SilasX on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:43PM (#36182217)
That sounds like a variant of the Chinese Room problem: if a non-Chinese speaker follows a rule book to text-chat in Chinese with someone on the other side, does s/he, in actuality, “speak Chinese”?

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

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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by pault on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:56PM (#36182954)
No, the book does.
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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by unlikelymordant on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:52AM (#36184113)
Or perhaps the book + human system does
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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by winternewt on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:41AM (#36185536)
Or perhaps it's the universe speaking Chinese with itself. The chain of cause and effect stretches 13.8 billion light years.
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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by readyplayeremma on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:00AM (#36183644)
Except the person in the room also had to write the book by looking at examples of Chinese.
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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by malf on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:06AM (#36183676)
Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
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