[DrSiemer]

Up to a degree. There is no real comprehension here.

Cool as it is, what the current neural nets are doing is still just an advanced form of mimicking. Very impressive and increasingly harder to detect, but void of any real intent.

[ElFitz]

> but void of any real intent.

I’m in no way convinced we have actual intelligence in current AI. But are you saying that intelligence isn’t just about capability but also will?

[burrows]

And you’re using what definition of “intent”?

[notahacker]

Any definition of "intent" involving more goals or different levels of abstraction or more presistence than "match given pattern" would suffice.

Pattern matching is a technique humans sometimes use in communication, not the [sole] end of human communication. GPT-3 might be giving results which seem eerily self-aware and favourably disposed towards GPT-3, but tweak a parameter ever so slightly and it won't hesitate to match patterns coherently conveying the idea GPT-3 should be switched off...