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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I love the way that GPT is the first computer program that manages to make mistakes in arithmetic. If a computer can't even get that right, it's pretty clear it shouldn't be relied on for anything important.
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There’s much more to human experience than conceptual thoughts - text
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Definitely not my takeaway from it.
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It's due to the nested secondary recursive abstractions of language...it encodes far more depth than we give it credit for and we respond to it subconsciously.
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Let's avoid being over-categorical. GPT has mimicked one manifestation of human intelligence & communication: Writing. Text is the end of the pipe of a ton of processes in the brain, which include all kinds of neural machinery. The union of that makes us human and experience it
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so many models are turing complete; the attention is all you need transformer model is surprisingly practically general, but so many things are *theoretically* general. i wonder how far along the practicality dimension one can go
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Of the human experience of folks most likely to use ChatGPT. There, selection bias spotted for you.
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Agreed. And while I don't know, I wouldn't be shocked if it's a yet more complete description than we realize.
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I think you might be the first human in history to fail the Turing test
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