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> That's just anthropomorphising a neural network, which is anything but intelligent.

What is intelligence? GPT-3 seems to perform better than my dog at a load of these tasks, and I think my dog is pretty intelligent (at least for a dog).

I mean, to me this does seem to show a level of what intelligence means to me - i.e. an ability to pick up new skills and read/apply knowledge in novel ways.

Intelligence != sentience.

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That's an interesting point, and I sure imply sentience when I say intelligence, to a certain degree. I'd argue that GPT-3 does not actually "understand" it's output in any way, it just tricks you into believing it does, for example by having some kind of a short-term memory, or forming coherent sentences. Yet the model has no abstract concept of the things it writes about. It's all just probabilities.

Yeah, it's basically Clever Hans. You can see it with the amount of completely nonsensical output you can also randomly get from it if you deviate even a small amount form the input data distribution.

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