On: CheatGPT

[dpflan]

“People are getting tripped up because they are seeing legitimate intelligence in the output from these systems -- but that intelligence was in the people who wrote the texts that it was trained with, not in the LLM.”

This is the real magic. Let’s train ChatGPT on absolute garbage information and compare the intelligence of the two.

[pixl97 → dpflan]

Let's take a kid and teach them garbage information as they are growing up... minimize as much 'real knowledge' as possible and see what comes out.

[highspeedbus → pixl97]

Right. There are various examples of what growing up isolated does to your mind.

Intelligence comes from a mix of the universe's stream of data hammering your senses and the teachings of another previous intelligent being.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong in kickstarting a chatbot with lots of pretrained data. It’s Chinese Rooms all the way down.

[dpflan → pixl97]

Agree. What happens? Is a human by default accepted to be an “AGI” entity?