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Did ChatGPT just form a thought?

by sysrpl on 1/10/23, 8:11 PM with 15 comments

  • by ok_dad on 1/10/23, 9:10 PM

    Sounds a lot like my toddler, so "maybe" would be my answer.

    I personally don't think human consciousness or thought is very "special" or "unique", and probably a lot of animals and complex systems have the same properties that lead to whatever consciousness is, but we humans think we're "super special", so most of us won't accept that we're really close to creating consciousness, if we haven't already.

  • by pwinnski on 1/11/23, 1:59 AM

    No, it did not.

    Humans are pattern-matchers, indeed, pattern-overmatchers, so it's not unreasonable that you felt that way, but this does not reflect anything like a "thought" from the AI model.

  • by gremlinsinc on 1/10/23, 9:02 PM

    I don't think this is how it works, or how any of this works. It just 'inferred' based on previous input the changes. It does the same for coding, if it gets things wrong and you feed it data from docs, or tell it what it did wrong it gets better at answering related questions.

  • by gibsonf1 on 1/10/23, 9:32 PM

    Indeed, ChatGPT did not form a thought as it can't think or understand what a single word means. This technology will never produce intelligence for which base requirements include conceptual understanding and awareness by modeling space-time relationships.

  • by MarcScott on 1/10/23, 9:13 PM

    I tried this prompt

    >I want you to play a game of 20 questions with me. You will ask me questions, one at a time, to try and determine which animal I am thinking of. You will use my answers to inform your next question. You can guess the animal I am thinking of at any time, but you must make a guess after your twentieth question.

    It appeared to break at question 7, but it might be experiencing high usage at the moment.

  • by wilg on 1/10/23, 9:02 PM

    It's an unanswerable question.

  • by tkrskxyz on 1/10/23, 8:59 PM

    obviously no

  • by dgeiser13 on 1/11/23, 1:20 AM

    One more ChatGPT post.

  • by sharemywin on 1/10/23, 8:57 PM

    It's very real feeling.

  • by bananapub on 1/11/23, 11:58 AM

    no