But it doesn't prove that the machine does not understand everything period. It just doesn't understand the topic or query at hand. It does no say anything about whether the machine can UNDERSTAND other things.
>What have you done to eliminate the possibility that it assembled the words algorithmically and the solution generated is something the reader constructed by assigning meaning to the text response? If the answer "can only be formulated through complete and understanding of the query it was given" then you must have eliminated this possibility.
This is easily done. The possibility is eliminated through the sheer number of possible compositions of assembled words. It assembled the words in a certain way that by probability can only indicate understanding.
>Where is the evidence that chatGPT understands a thing?
By composing words in a novel way that can only be done through understanding of a complex concept. But this composition of words or EVEN a close approximation of this composition CANNOT ever exist in another data set on the internet.
It takes one example of this for it to be proof that it understands.
>Thats an interpretation of the text output that you assigned based on what the words in the text mean to you. I could just as easily say that Harry Potter is self-aware.
No it's not. It's simply a composition of words that cannot be formulated without understanding. Harry Potter is obviously not self aware. But from the text of harry potter, WE can deduce that the thing that composed words to create Harry Potter understands what harry potter is. What composed the words to create Harry Potter? JK Rowling.
>I don't think you understand what we're discussing.
No it's just a sign of your own lack of understanding.