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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8933735" data-attributes="member: 19857">One major difference between what ChatGPT is doing and what we do (and there are so, so many) is that ChatGPT can literally only mix together what it has &quot;read&quot; to produce new text.Humans, on the other hand, have a complex system of inputs that include not just what we've read but also what we've experienced. And our emotional responses to these things. Yes if you want to get essentialist these are chemical reactions to the experiences that lead to different brain states, but we have them and they are an input that Large Language Models - which only have language - do not. What an LLM does is nothing like the way a human brain works and what it produces is going to be far, far more limited because its inputs are far more limited. This isn't even about whether or not it's possible to get a machine to reproduce what a human being does in a &quot;strong AI&quot; sense - LLMs are nowhere near the boundary for strong AI. They just remix text in a way that our brain says &quot;good enough&quot;. Especially for things where we don't expect novelty but in fact want a standardized response (like the back-and-forth of a chat, or a form letter, or a 5 paragraph essay).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8933735, member: 19857"] One major difference between what ChatGPT is doing and what we do (and there are so, so many) is that ChatGPT can literally only mix together what it has "read" to produce new text. Humans, on the other hand, have a complex system of inputs that include not just what we've read but also what we've experienced. And our emotional responses to these things. Yes if you want to get essentialist these are chemical reactions to the experiences that lead to different brain states, but we have them and they are an input that Large Language Models - which only have language - do not. What an LLM does is nothing like the way a human brain works and what it produces is going to be far, far more limited because its inputs are far more limited. This isn't even about whether or not it's possible to get a machine to reproduce what a human being does in a "strong AI" sense - LLMs are nowhere near the boundary for strong AI. They just remix text in a way that our brain says "good enough". Especially for things where we don't expect novelty but in fact want a standardized response (like the back-and-forth of a chat, or a form letter, or a 5 paragraph essay). [/QUOTE]

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