Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated.

Jan 6, 2023 · 6:29 PM UTC

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Quite the contrary! Despite the sheer scale of ChatGPT, it has produced no notable progress in multimodal understanding or in attaining the most basic levels of common sense. Instead, ChatGPT is essentially a very noteworthy BS artist, who is exposed when questioned correctly.
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No.
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Yes to the world of 'text'. It's much acceptable than voice.
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Text presented in a text only interface is always going to seem more complete than text presented as lets say, audio since it will almost certainly lack the mannerisms and other domain specific style that might not be present in LLM training datasets.
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Yes, but its not certain it will be enough for agi
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Language is Knowledge. Therefore the result was inevitable.
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Huh? It's text. Why would it not be able to function in the world of text.
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1000 characters say more than one image
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each word is like a world they are molecular protein centric and the word of .. god, hm
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Have we needed an AI to answer Gadamer?