One thing I’ve always found inaccurate/confusing about the cave analogy is that humans interact with what they perceive (whether its reality or shadows) as opposed to the slave that can only passively observe the projections on the wall. Even if we can’t perceive reality directly, (whatever this means), by interacting with it we can poke at it to gain a much better understanding of things (eg. experiments). This extends to things we can’t directly see or measure.
ChatGPT is similar to the slave in the cave itself, having the ability to observe the real world, or some representation of it, but not (yet) interacting with it to learn (if we only consider it to learn at training time).
One thing I’ve always found inaccurate/confusing about the cave analogy is that humans interact with what they perceive (whether its reality or shadows) as opposed to the slave that can only passively observe the projections on the wall. Even if we can’t perceive reality directly, (whatever this means), by interacting with it we can poke at it to gain a much better understanding of things (eg. experiments). This extends to things we can’t directly see or measure.
ChatGPT is similar to the slave in the cave itself, having the ability to observe the real world, or some representation of it, but not (yet) interacting with it to learn (if we only consider it to learn at training time).