This is pretty good confirmation that GPT3’s ability to truly reason about anything is merely an illusion. The above quote, couldn’t be more incorrect despite sounding intelligent, and despite countless similar sentences in financial papers/academia. And therein lies GPT3’s greatest accomplishment.
Here we see that qeternity has stated an incorrect fact, therefore qeternity is unable to truly reason about anything :)
There is some fascinating work demonstrating generalization on arithmetic problems GPT-3 has never seen before, what do you think about that?
GPT-3 is just the biggest exercise in curve fitting ever conducted.
"The above quote couldn’t be more incorrect despite sounding intelligent" could be leveled at comments on any HN submission.
Though it can't confirm that the speaker is incapable of reason, else us humans would be in big trouble. The reason that we know that GPT-3 isn't capable of reason is because we know how it was made.
If we ever achieve general AI, I think it will emerge from as black a box as human consciousness, and we will be back to bedrock on philosophical questions like "are we actually conscious?" and "when does something become conscious?" except now we won't have to ponder those questions alone.
So if a human ever stated such nonsense, that would disprove the idea that they could truly reason about "anything" as well? Or does it just prove that they are capable of spouting nonsense?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
[2] Low rates of both type I and II errors.