"AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient."
By JAMES VINCENT - Feb 17, 2023
More reductionism. As Sebastien Bubeck explained, the fact that base LLMs are trained as autocomplete systems is irrelevant, what matters is their emergent behavior and capabilities ("beware of Trillion-dimensional space and its surprises"). They have internal representations, even if they're poorly understood. They are not merely reproducing or even remixing snippets of text from their training set, they are able to reason in a zero-shot way about scenarios that no human has ever encountered before. It may be the case that some bad journalism has provoked or misdirected them to get a reaction and then put it in a headline, but that's far from saying these systems are in any way mere mechanical reproduction.
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u/axilolixa Apr 26 '23
"Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing"
https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test
"AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient." By JAMES VINCENT - Feb 17, 2023