ChatGPT, and especially GPT-4, seem to do much more than just play games with words. You can’t overlook the “emergent” phenomena that manifest themselves when using them.
So, when do models go from being "not intelligent" to "intelligent", well no surprise: when their data includes everything ever written. Is this emergence? No, it's just sampling from *data with the relevant properties*.
How does data acquire those properties? Well when people produce it.
What "emerges" from AI is not from AI; its from the properties of the data its using. The data here is produced by intelligent agents, and it is light of their intelligence which shines thru' GPTs like a prism.
They are sometimes bad looking, and they are always better than randomness, which does indicate understanding even if the conclusions are faulty.
>What "emerges" from AI is not from AI; its from the properties of the data its using
This is squabbling over semantics. If the properties of the data are used to the effect of displaying intelligence, then the fact is that what you are looking at is intelligence.
If I define a word I have never seen before using deductive logic according to the passage I find it in, I've still acquired an understanding of the word, even though I've not referred to anything external.
uhuh. And have you studied anything in the area of the intelligence of really-existing systems? (ie., animals)
For sure, bugs bunny appears witty; and chatgpt, intelligent.
But you know: only because their writers are.
Am I intelligent at age 3? Then I learn language. Am I intelligent? Then I progress through education. I become more and more intelligent as I am exposed to more data.
I don’t know about computer science, so I go expose myself to computer science literature. I take courses, and see examples. What emerges is a “more intelligent” version of myself that.
What is intelligence, even?
Yes, things emerge. But gold isnt lead
But doesn’t it imply that once we have something that can “see” its environment, hear nearby sounds, and have some sort of haptic sense — wouldn’t that be AI, then? Given your definition?
If, of course, such a thing used all that input to “create” concepts like its physical place within an environment, what may or may not come next given the interplay of those inputs, and how to navigate the environment based on all that.
But then I’d say, “GPT-4 can handle image data. And what might come in the future with more modalities?”