> Who does the GPT think wrote them? What makes you think the GPT *thinks*?

flangola7 · on May 13, 2023

Because it... thinks. I don't understand your question.

andsoitis · on May 13, 2023

The task of prediction is not the same as the task of understanding.

DirkH · on May 17, 2023

Yea, so I might have believed you except I can ask GPT-4 to step by step explain its reasoning. It is really weird to say it doesn't understand but "I do" when the response it can give is better than the average human would give to prove they understand.

You might say it is just predicting based off of old data it has, to which I say this sounds like a semantic jostling. What is "understanding" then in human beings if not us doing some form of predicting off of old data we have in our brain?

Also I recommend reading Geoffrey Hinton on this

flangola7 · on May 14, 2023

You can't accurately predict the outcome of a process if you don't understand it. Geoffrey Hinton has already explained this very clearly.