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by jpttsn 2157 days ago
Couldn’t you yourself learn how to do that, in a foreign language, without knowing what the words mean?
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Logic is sensitive to the meaning of words to a degree and so if I can pick out the context to apply certain deductive rules, then I know what the relevant words mean, at least to the degree that they indicate logical structure.

It's possible that a program could learn when to apply certain rules based on its own if-then statements and bypass understanding, but that's not the architecture of GPT-3. If it learns the statistical/structural properties of a string of text such that it can apply the correct logical transformations based on context, the default assumption should be that it has some rudimentary understanding of the logical structure.