[shanhaiguan]

I don't like the word invention for this. The grammar is laid out by the author who has to teach the AI and correct it several times. If the AI had then proceeded to generate something similar on its own with different grammar and lexicon then I might feel comfortable using the word invention.

[seydor]

As humans we seem to have feelings about what this calculator does, but it doesnt have any about us.

In any case it seems to be particularly good at understanding syntax, even though its architecture seems to be based on Transformers. Those don't have baked in notions of syntactic or recursive structures. It must be interesting to see how these linguistic structures arise in a system that is basically learning the context of words. People will be dissecting its brain soon i think

[kelseyfrog]

Why don't you like it?

[shanhaiguan]

Well, I feel like I said it, but for the same reason that a student learning French has not invented French, or even a new language, if he has come up with his own equivalent for each French word

[ralfd]

The vocabulary was invented though by gpt.