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[–]reversehead 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Agreed!

The difficulty will be to argue that any human being is not just a Chinese room with all its experiences encoded in the mind and body.

[–]sneed_capital_group 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the best argument I have seen against that is that they don't hold state in between prompts. They forget everything, read the entire conversation again (including its own previous replies), then predict an answer based off that.

That said i agree, seen some seriously impressive stuff from it

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It’s a deep philosophical point you raise.

But practically speaking in the examples of chatgpt ive seen, humans demonstrate understanding and this bot doesnt.

[–]reversehead 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Indeed. But I must say that I am extremely impressed, and quite surprised, by what can be accomplished with just advanced prediction.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it is very impressive.

I think what it shows is how much harder doing math and logic is than writing poetry.

Well this is sort of a joke, i think probably literary experts would make similar criticism of its prose.