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Another interesting tidbit: PN: I think it might be fruitful, for the time being, to set aside the task of teaching you how to construct interesting p...
March 26, 2023 at 11:21
GPT4 as an Albert Einstein suffering an acute case of dyslexia This is how I perceived GPT4 to be in my latest interaction with it. Witness and behold...
March 26, 2023 at 11:05
Quite! It seems like dozens of the challenges that AI researchers had endeavored to overcome by breaking down complex cognitive tasks into component s...
March 26, 2023 at 07:44
Another interesting tidbit: PN: After I provided you with GPT4b's summary of the initial part of my conversation with you, is there something about me...
March 26, 2023 at 06:47
GPT4 may still be a dumb machine and a far cry away from having achieved AGI (artificial general intelligence). Nevertheless it is in many respects mu...
March 26, 2023 at 06:33
More on GPT4's proclivity to hallucinate and the limits of its (huge) working memory The following conversation (which I only provide excepts from) be...
March 26, 2023 at 03:46
GPT4's memory recall process and proclivity to hallucinate GPT4 has a huge knowledge base but the way it accesses it is rather similar to the way huma...
March 26, 2023 at 03:20
What it has done successfully is to satisfy a design requirement that met my expectations while being provided with instructions that were very abstra...
March 26, 2023 at 03:04
I understand. I didn't point out the error on that specific occasion because pointing that out in the past had resulted in GPT4 attempting to create a...
March 25, 2023 at 14:20
Georges Perec's palindrome and GPT4's anterograde anmesia Part 4 - A case of mistaken identity (continued) In the following conversation, I supplied a...
March 25, 2023 at 11:50
One of the most salient weakness that I saw being reported is that it limits the number of follow-up questions to three. This would make the experimen...
March 25, 2023 at 11:31
It is a failed attempt at producing a palindrome. The beginning (Evil rats) matches the ending (star, live) in reverse order. So, GPT4 clearly underst...
March 25, 2023 at 11:29
Georges Perec's palindrome and GPT4's anterograde anmesia Part 3 - A case of mistaken identity PN: I just went over another iteration in a separate di...
March 25, 2023 at 11:11
It already has had access to the internet for a while as its implementation in Microsoft's Bing Chat. Bing Chat is an alternative way to access GPT4 f...
March 25, 2023 at 10:16
Georges Perec's palindrome and GPT4's anterograde anmesia Part 2 PN: This looks good! Your ability to synthesize complex ideas amazes me. Let us there...
March 25, 2023 at 10:01
Georges Perec's palindrome and GPT4's anterograde anmesia Part 1 GPT4 again blew my mind so hard that my skull burst open an my brains ended up splatt...
March 25, 2023 at 08:49
Regarding LLMs proclivity to hallucinate or generate bullshit (in the Frankfurtian sense), I had indeed witnessed this often while interacting with Ch...
March 25, 2023 at 04:30
Damn! I think that the next experiment that I attempted with GPT4 was a little bit of a failure. It does again illustrate how much of a smart puppy th...
March 24, 2023 at 13:24
In the following exchange, I provided GPT4 with two chapters from a paper of mine on the topic of free-will, determinism and responsibility. For the s...
March 24, 2023 at 11:06
Part 2 PN: Your description is again correct but still doesn't match the representation that you produced. Let us try something else. Are you able to ...
March 24, 2023 at 08:57
GPT4 once again blew my mind. I again used the Socratic maieutic method to steer it away from dead ends, but the problems I was proposing to it were q...
March 24, 2023 at 08:52
Follow-up to my previous post regarding the robot reply to Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment: PN: Interestingly enough, you are replying from a...
March 24, 2023 at 06:35
Thanks for that! Just for fun, I asked Big Sister for her take as well (and then pressed her further on some issues). PN: Do you think that Searle's C...
March 24, 2023 at 06:11
I can see two reasons why that might not necessarily be the case. First, even if the designers drew explicitly on their own knowledge of the Chinese l...
March 24, 2023 at 05:51
So, here is my post again, processed by GPT4. I was a bit disappointed by its commentary since it's basically another instance of its oft-repeated boi...
March 24, 2023 at 05:39
Thanks, Banno, for providing this exchange, and interesting line of inquiry. Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment aims primarily at establishing t...
March 24, 2023 at 05:20
An issue that arose in my past exchanges with GPT4 concerns its ability to intuit the global structure of a problem before proceeding to breaking it u...
March 24, 2023 at 04:32
Yes, I think GPT3.5 had provided a better account of the source of the human error while GPT4 had provided a better account of the language model's ab...
March 24, 2023 at 04:12
Here is a short exchange, comparing GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT) and GPT4. This experiment is inspired by a recent Reddit thread. PN: If I am a runner in a footr...
March 24, 2023 at 03:09
So, here is how GPT4 reacted to my own original presentation of the parallel that I had noticed between van Inwagen's Consequence Argument and the arg...
March 23, 2023 at 14:58
When you do, feel free to share enlightening interactions in my thread, or create one of your own as you see fit!
March 23, 2023 at 14:25
And this one is for @"Banno" PN: Do you know the rules of the game of naughts and crosses? GPT4: Yes, I'm familiar with the game of noughts and crosse...
March 23, 2023 at 14:23
Certainly, in the light of those results, GPT4 could help me in such a way. I had initially though of using this formal similarity in a paper titled A...
March 23, 2023 at 14:06
So, in this most recent exchange, GPT4 had my mind completely blown. Being provided only with very vague clues, it was able to capture my intended mea...
March 23, 2023 at 12:14
Thanks for providing great questions! I need to give due thought to them before replying, and I'm a bit sick (with some sort of flu) right now. And I ...
March 23, 2023 at 11:56
Discussing with GPT4 a similarity between LLMs and my former philosophy teacher Richard Bodéüs. (Or, how to discursively unpack complex insights and i...
March 23, 2023 at 11:04
Here is yet another follow-up to my discussion with GPT4 regarding my discussion with @"sime" about GPT4 PN: "There is another issue from the exchange...
March 23, 2023 at 10:10
Here is a follow-up to the discussion in the preceding post. PN: 'While reacting to my intervention in the supplied exchange, you offered the followin...
March 23, 2023 at 09:37
I submitted part of my exchange with @"sime" to GPT4 and asked it for comments. I would have liked it to be more critical and less conciliatory (even ...
March 23, 2023 at 09:22
This is accurate as a low-level description of the generative model's design. But I think its ability to reason is a high-level emergent feature stemm...
March 23, 2023 at 09:04
Yes, this rather harks back to my discussion with it regarding the contrast between its superior cognitive skills and its comparatively poorer abiliti...
March 23, 2023 at 08:48
It seems to really struggle with most tasks that involve processing spatial representations. I discussed with GPT4 the mechanical structure of the con...
March 23, 2023 at 08:37
Follow-up on my previous post... The first part of my probing of GPT4's scholarly knowledge had yielded results somewhat below my expectations, but I ...
March 23, 2023 at 05:53
Probing the extent of GPT4's scholarly knowledge and discussing the neuroscience of emotions. Hi GPT4, In the present conversation I would like to ass...
March 23, 2023 at 05:36
I wasn't familiar with this particular metaphor from Dennett's. I'll look it up. It also evokes Leibnitz's windmill analogy and Dennett's own intentio...
March 23, 2023 at 02:13
This worry of yours seem to mirror a similar worry that had been voiced by @"magritte" in their post that appeared a few hours before yours. I also sh...
March 23, 2023 at 02:07
I agree with you, to some degree, and I surmise that GPT4 itself would likely agree even more! I am quite concerned in my investigations, and my probi...
March 23, 2023 at 01:39
GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 both assessing GPT-3.5's earlier performance: PN: "During a previous conversation I had given you the following instruction: "Can yo...
March 23, 2023 at 01:24
Now looking back at my recent exchanges with the bot regarding mathematical proofs, it looks like I had accidentally made use of the default language ...
March 23, 2023 at 00:56
Now, here is an interesting example of GPT4 not only failing to make stuff up but stubbornly refusing to hallucinate. PN: Could you now attempt to pro...
March 22, 2023 at 12:49