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nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It’s still not reasoning. It’s running a simulation

As Daniel Dennett once asked: “What is the difference between a simulated song, and a real song?”

You say it’s not reasoning, but I’ve seen it debug and fix a core dump

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lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A couple of things:

we are talking about chat bots talking to people in this post, and how you can steer the simulated conversation towards whatever you want

it did not debug anything, a human debugged something and wrote about it. Then that human input and a ton of others were mapped into a huge probability map, and some computer simulated what people talking about this would most likely say. Is it useful? Sure, maybe. Why didn’t you debug it yourself?
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