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ChatGPT Does Not Understand Anything

Ethical Machines

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The Importance of Understanding Symbols

It's to possess a skill of being able to sort the worlds in which some sentences is true from the world in which that sentence is false. I'm inclined to say that that presupposes that I understand what it means when someone says Michael Phelps runs. So now we can ask a question back about chat GPT. Does it do anything like that? That's one question. Second question, is that the only way to understand because here's I think a very interesting hypothesis. Chat GPT and its future generations will understand English. They just won't do it the way we do it. Right. We could kind of Chinese room this. It looks like in these cases we've gone a

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