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by eropple 1125 days ago
It has not been solved. Even GPT-4, as impressive as it is for some use cases, is dumb and I can tell the difference between it and a human in a dozen sentences just by demanding sufficient precision.

In some contexts, will some people be caught out? Absolutely. But that's been happening for a while now.
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ben_w 1124 days ago
"Dumb" isn't why the Turing Test isn't solved. (Have you seen unmoderated chat with normal people? Heck, even smart people outside the domain of expertise; my mum was smart enough to get into university in the UK in the early 60s, back when that wasn't the default, but still believed in the healing power of crystals, homeopathic sodium chloride and silicon dioxide, and Bach flower remedies…)

ChatGPT (I've not got v4) deliberately fails the test by spewing out "as a large language model…", but also fails incidentally by having an attention span similar to my mother's shortly after her dementia diagnosis.

The problem with 3.5 is that it's simultaneously not mastered anything, and yet also beats everyone in whatever they've not mastered — an extremely drunk 50,000 year old Sherlock Holmes who speaks every language and has read every book just isn't going to pass itself off as Max Musstermann in a blind hour-long trial.

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rtkwe 1124 days ago
The lack of an ability to take in new information is maybe the crux of my issues with the LLM to AGI evolution. To my understanding the only way to have it even kind of learn something is to include it in a preamble it reprocesses every time which is maybe workable for small facts but breaks down for updating it from the 202X corpus it was trained on.
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ben_w 1124 days ago
Mmm. Well, possibly.

On the one hand, what I was saying here was more about the Turing Test than about AGI. Sometimes it gets called the AGI, sometimes it's "autocomplete on steroids", but even if it is fancy autocomplete, I think 3.5 has the skill to pass a short Turing Test, but not the personality, and it needs a longer "short-term memory"-equivalent than 3.5 for a full Turing Test.

On the other hand, as I (sadly) don't get paid to create LLMs, I've only got the kind of superficial awareness of how they work that comes from podcasts and the occasional blog post, which means ChatGPT might very well understand ChatGPT better than I do.

Can GPT-[3.5, 4] be prompted to make itself?

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