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0 pointsmnl3y ago0 comments

This is obvious, but for some reason some people want to believe that magically a conceptual framework emerges because animal intelligence has to be something like that anyway.

I don't know how animal intelligence works, I just notice when it understands, and these programs don't. Why should they? They're paraphrasing machines, they have no problem contradicting themselves, they can't define adjectives really, they'll give you synonyms. Again, it's all they have, why should they produce anything else?

It's very impressive, but when I read claims of it being akin to human intelligence that's kind of sad to be honest.

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mgfist3y ago

> They're paraphrasing machines, they have no problem contradicting themselves, they can't define adjectives really, they'll give you synonyms. Again, it's all they have, why should they produce anything else?

It can certainly do more than paraphrasing. And re: the contradicting nature, humans do that quite often.

Not sure what you mean by "can't define adjectives"

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