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by kazinator 1165 days ago
Writing programs requires an education. You can sort of fake it with training, if you're a machine that can train on a billion examples and reliably retain something from each one, without understanding any of them.
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So your claim is that GPT-4 is a stochastic parrot?

Meanwhile, the creators at OpenAI claims that it is not.

How do we test your claim? What are the logical reasoning questions we can ask GPT-4 that it shouldn't be able to answer if it's just a stochastic parrot?

I keep asking people this, but so far no one has answered. Is the claim a personal belief that you don't want to discuss, similar to your religious beliefs?

If so, fine, but please make it clear that you're not making a scientific claim.

GPT-4 looks like a much more powerful system which can produce answers in ways that can't easily be explained/dismissed as "stochastic parroting".