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Does or could ChatGPT understand text? [closed]
The following argument concludes that the common understanding of ChatGPT (trained on text, receives online users' text questions, etc.) is not supported by the science. What criticisms are there of ...
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If Large Language Models can do Maths, is Formalism true?
A slightly flippant question, but curious to see what my platonist rivals might have to say!
One of the proported reasons that Open-AI was having business politics trouble was the suggestion that ...
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What methods have been proposed to identify sentience in an AI?
It is in the news that google has suspended a software engineer for violating confidentiality policies after sought "outside consultation" over concerns the AI he was working on is sentient. ...
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Is this a solution to the disjunction problem of causal representation?
As I understand it, the disjunction problem is how could a causal theory of inner representation account for mistaken identification of external objects or object types. For example, if I see a fox ...
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How can one refute John Searle's "syntax is not semantics" argument against strong AI?
There are many refutations of John Searle's Chinese Room argument against Strong AI. But they seem to be addressing the structure of the thought experiment itself, as opposed to the underlying ...
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