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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 18
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted  🤧 🌎

      Subprime text crisis. I’m amused but not impressed by the evolution of GPT. Once I saw the ways in which it was failing, the spell broke.https://twitter.com/atthatmatt/status/1284682407270969344 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

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      The feedback loop of AI's getting really good at writing, and polluting the world with AI generated text, which trains the next generation of AIs, is going to be weird.
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 18
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      It passes a casual Turing test, but not an attentive test focusing on capacity to reference reality. This thing lives in human mangaate pattern space, not the world. http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html …pic.twitter.com/M8eNf5e86c

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 18
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      I believe it was @s_r_constantin who first tagged this gaping hole in the pretense that what gpt-2 is doing is AI.https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/ …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 18
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      While I’m skeptical of Seattle’s Chinese room criticism in general, it works here. GPT is trapped in a world of symbols. It mirrors human symbol association patterns in a high-dimensional representation. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ …

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 18
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          Calling this intelligence strikes me as similar to calling a mirror intelligent or a camera artistic. There’s a category error here. It’s not moving the goalposts. It’s pointing out that a videotape of a soccer game is not a soccer fame.pic.twitter.com/9G7zoYZSO8

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 18
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          That said, this is one half of something interesting. The other half is an autonomous feedback loop with the open world. If this can push its own scope boundary then we’re cooking. Plug this into a Boston dynamics robot and it’ll get interesting.

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        1. David o'Bedlam‏ @David_o_Bedlam Jul 19
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