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by leetbulb
1288 days ago
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> It doesn't know anything. What? > It just spits out the most statistically likely response to the prompt. This is how humans work. > It cannot think. It cannot reason. ChatGPT is already better at thinking (and reasoning) than some humans, albeit in a different manner. |
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How is human thought remotely comparable to these transformer models? As humans, we see a prompt, break it down into its component ideas, compare it to our prior thoughts, memories, and feelings, and build connections that that we ultimately use to generate an appropriate response. We definitely don't just try to guess what the other humans we've heard from might have said in our place.
> ChatGPT is already better at thinking (and reasoning) than some humans, albeit in a different manner.
We can do plenty of thinking and reasoning in ways that ChatGPT can't. It's just that reasoning isn't necessary to hold a compelling conversation, since speech is relatively trivial to synthesize from prior knowledge alone. And people can generally get by in life without having to think or reason much every minute of the day, perhaps leading to the false perception that it is wholly unnecessary.