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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by bagful on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:01PM (#37648015)
My unspoken thought-objects are wordless concepts, sounds, and images, with words only loosely hanging off those thought-objects. It takes additional effort to serialize thought-objects to sequences of words, and this is a lossy process - which would not be the case if I were thinking essentially in language.
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by whimsicalism on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:07PM (#37648096)
You have no clue how GPT-4 functions so I don't know why you're assuming they're "thinking in language"
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by bagful on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:08PM (#37652001)
I am comfortable asserting that an LLM like GPT-4 is only capable of thinking in language; there is no distinction for an LLM between what it can conceive of and what it can express.
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Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com by whimsicalism on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:09PM (#37652564)
It certainly "thinks" in vector spaces at least. It also is multimodal, so not sure how that plays in?
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