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lunarul@lemmy.world 2 years agoLLMs reproduce the form of language without any meaning being transmitted. That’s called parroting.
Even if an AGI is going to be achieved, there will be people calling it parroting by your definition. That’s the Chinese room argument
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
You’re moving the goalposts.
lunarul@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Me? How can I move goalposts in a single sentence? We’ve had no previous conversation… And I’m not agreeing with the previous poster either…
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
By entering the discussion, you also engaged in the previops context. The discussion uas about LLMs being parrots.
lunarul@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And the argument was if there’s meaning behind what they generate. That argument applies to AGIs too. It’s a deeply debated philosophical question. What is meaning? Is our own thought pattern deterministic, and if it is, how do we know there’s any meaning behind our own actions?