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CEO/Founder of http://Robust.AI ; cognitive scientist, and best-selling author. New book: http://Rebooting.AI : Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

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    1. Gary Marcus‏ @GaryMarcus Nov 6
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      Sutskever to @NewYorker: "If you train a system which predicts the next word well enough, then it ought to understand" ML fans when I show GPT-2 has no idea what happens as events unfold over time: GPT-2 is just system for predicting next words; not fair to ask it to understand.

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    2. Felix Hill‏ @FelixHill84 Nov 6
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      Replying to @GaryMarcus @NewYorker

      If that's a direct quote it seems wrong to me, but I also think the power of prediction is only starting to reveal itself (as models get more stuff to predict about). I think it's remarkable the knowledge that prediction can impart.

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    3. Simon Brocklehurst‏ @SMBrocklehurst Nov 7
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      Replying to @FelixHill84 @GaryMarcus @NewYorker

      That is a direct quote (in screenshot). IMO, Ilya is absolutely correct in that point. However, when Gary points out current language models can't do this, people backtrack to such an extent that they pretend no one ever claimed language models are even related to understanding.pic.twitter.com/DdlpoW4FrM

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    4. Abhijit Mahabal‏ @amahabal Nov 7
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      Replying to @SMBrocklehurst @FelixHill84 and

      People don’t predict the next word exactly. That is why Crime and Punishment had to be written fully rather than just writing the first sentence. Does that mean we don’t understand well enough?

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    5. Simon Brocklehurst‏ @SMBrocklehurst Nov 7
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      Replying to @amahabal @FelixHill84 and

      I wouldn't get hung up on the word "predict". The point is, in order to write new phrases, sentences, paragraphs, chapters and books; and to have the language make sense; you need to understand language. That is, IMO, what Ilya was meaning in the quote Gary picked out.

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      Gary Marcus‏ @GaryMarcus Nov 7
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      Replying to @SMBrocklehurst @amahabal and

      problem is that the technical tool works at the level of individual words, not at the level of ideas

      6:42 AM - 7 Nov 2019
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        1. Simon Brocklehurst‏ @SMBrocklehurst Nov 7
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          Indeed. I think it's not widely understood that it's simply not *possible* for semantics to emerge purely from looking at syntax. Trying to do that will always be a losing strategy. Always. Is it part of a solution? Perhaps. Perhaps not. No one knows yet.

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