Certainly, Midjourney's "creativity" is different from human creativity. But it is producing results that we marvel at. It's creative not because it's doing the exact same philosophical thing humans do, but because it can produce the same effect.

And I think many situations are like that. We can always say that human creativity/reasoning/x will always be different from artificial reasoning. But even today, GPT's statistical model replicates many aspects of human reasoning virtually. Is that really an illusion (implying its fake and potentially useless), or is it just a different way of achieving a similar result?

Plus, different models will excel at different thing. GPT's model will excel at synthesizing answers from far more information than a single human will ever be able to know. Does it really matter if it's not identical to human reasoning on a philosophical or biological level, if it can do things humans can't do?

At the end of the day, some of these discussions feel like bike shedding about what words like "reasoning" mean philosophically. But what will ultimately matter is how well these models perform at real world tasks, and what impact that will have on humanity. It doesn't really matter if it's virtualized reasoning or "real" human reasoning at that point.

And remixing stuff it has heard before is exactly what ChatGPT is doing. What it sucks at is the "feels like it's new" part, but fundamentally it would be quite easily capable of creating output that combines concepts with maximally negative correlation, the only thing that's truly missing is the ability to interpret the prompt as an instruction to do that.

Is that a falsifiable claim?

What would an empirical test look like that would determine whether the claim ("GPT-4 does not have a model of the world") is correct or not?

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