[HN Gopher] Philosophers on GPT-3 ___________________________________________________________________ Philosophers on GPT-3 Author : freediver Score : 22 points Date : 2020-07-30 22:07 UTC (52 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (dailynous.com) (TXT) w3m dump (dailynous.com) | wrnr wrote: | I think GPT-3 is a technical marvel but it did not reveal | anything about language that wasn't already known by linguists | for at least a 100 years. I've read this funny dialog generated | by GPT-3 between Bezos and Page, but even that was edited by the | "author". At the end of the day it nothing more than an advanced | form of Dada poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada#Poetry | jcims wrote: | >I think GPT-3 is a technical marvel but it did not reveal | anything about language that wasn't already known by linguists | for at least a 100 years. | | Yet. It's so incredibly sensitive to input conditions I would | say that we really don't know exactly how to explore it fully. | I would also argue that we don't really understand a single | language until we understand many, and until we tag and | classify the inputs I would say we don't even really understand | what we passed through the system at all. | runawaybottle wrote: | It's manipulative power is more what I'm interested in. I want | to see what percentage of the general population can be | manipulated by it. Could care less if it's a pure design that | simulates mastery of a language. | | I have a hunch it will work on 50% of people. | hirundo wrote: | "GPT-3 on Philosphers" could be more interesting. I would like to | read a response by GPT-3 to these essays. It's only fair. | sroussey wrote: | Does GPT-3 actually exist? I only see stories about it, but don't | see it or access to it at all. | | Maybe it's hanging out on Clubhouse... | est31 wrote: | access exists through a closed beta program who also can only | send queries to it, not download the model. This site contains | links to a google form to get onto the wait list of beta user | candidates: https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/ | Lambdanaut wrote: | There are also certain users that do have access to that API | that provide public access to it through their own user | interface. | freediver wrote: | Chalmers: "As for consciousness, I am open to the idea that a | worm with 302 neurons is conscious, so I am open to the idea that | GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters is conscious too." | minimaxir wrote: | I'm not fond of both the recurring philosophical and the | Skynet/AGI angles that keep popping up regarding GPT-3. "But to | [analyze statistical distributions of text] really well, some | capacities of general intelligence are needed" isn't correct | either; no one would call attention mechanisms used in | Transformer models as evidence of intelligence, it's math. | | It's easier to argue it's not GPT-3 that's advanced, but it's | _humans_ that are simple. | boltzmann_ wrote: | so what's intelligence then? it seems like you're saying humans | are not intelligent? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-30 23:00 UTC)