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What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Connection Between Predicting and Understanding
In order to predict, it essentially has to learn all these different subtasks. You cannot guess what the detective will say at the end of the book without really going into the meaning of the novel. And this is the link between prediction and understanding or at least this is an intuitive link between those two. Right. If a neural network would do a really good job at predicting the next word, including this word, then it would suggest that it understood something very significant about the novel. That's exactly right. So even though you never program the system to write poetry or translate languages or do simple math problems, it learns how to do all those things. The only way to get capabilities like this
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