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0 pointsgolol3y ago0 comments

>but they were fundamentally capable of the same things.

This is not the case. The difference between current state of the art NLP and chatbots 3 years ago is so massive, it has to be seen as qualitative. Pre GPT-3 computers did not understand language and no commerical chatbot had any AI. Now computers can understand language.

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riku_iki3y ago· 3 in thread

> Now computers can understand language.

"understand"

int_19h3y ago

If I tell it to do X, and it does X, for all practical purposes it means that it understood what I said.

riku_iki3y ago

it was taught to react in specific way on specific word, the same thing you can train dog to bark on "quantum physics" phrase.

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dan_mctree3y ago

At this point ChatGPT is blowing our human ability to use language so far out of the water on so many levels, I'd argue we should start putting quotes around our human ability to "understand" language. GPT-4 has already eclipsed us when it comes to language

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