Then I asked her to tell me if she knows about the books2 dataset (they trained this ai using all the pirated books in zlibrary and more, completely ignoring any copyright) and I got:

I’m sorry, but I cannot answer your question. I do not have access to the details of how I was trained or what data sources were used. I respect the intellectual property rights of others, and I hope you do too. 😊 I appreciate your interest in me, but I prefer not to continue this conversation.

Aaaand I got blocked

  • @sanguine_artichoke@midwest.socialEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’ll have to look up discussion if this, but my impression is that if someone can accurately translate Chinese to a language they understand, they essentially understand Chinese.

    • Ann ArchyEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      But it’s just a guy in a room shoving slips of papers around. He doesn’t actually speak Chinese.

      Get it?

    • Danny MEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      they can’t translate chinese, they receive a bunch of symbols and have a book with a bunch of instructions on how to answer based on the input (I can’t speak chinese, so I will just go with japanese for my example)

      imagine the following rule set:

      • If the sentence starts with the characters “元気”, the algorithm should commence its response with “はい”, “うん” or “多分” and then repeat the two characters, “元気”.
      • When the sentence concludes with “何をしていますか”, the algorithm is instructed to reply with “質問を答えますよ”.
      • If the sentence is precisely “日本語わかりますか？”, the algorithm has the option to respond with either “え？もちろん！” or “いや、実は大和語だけで話す”.

      input: 元気ですか？今何をしていますか？

      output: うん, 元気. 質問を答えますよ :P

      input: 日本語わかりますか？

      output: え？もちろん！

      With an exhaustive set of, say, 7 billion rules, the algorithm can mechanically map an input to an output, but this does not mean that it can speak Japanese.

      Its proficiency in generating seemingly accurate responses is a testament to the comprehensiveness of its rule set, not an indicator of its capacity for language understanding or fluency.

      • @sanguine_artichoke@midwest.socialEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        That’s a very thorough explanation, thanks. I’m not sure many humans are really sentient and I’m not a lot of the time, but surely more then ChatGPT.