Whether they can translate is unclear because limits of translation of human languages are still unknown.
Yes, they are trained in logs of human thoughts. Each log entry corresponds to a human thought, eg. there is a bijection. There is thus no formal difference.
Re: predicting encodings of human thought, I’m not sure what is supposed to be compelling about this. GPTs currently would only learn a subset of human cognition, namely, that subset that generates human text. So sure, trained on more types of human cognition might make it more accurately follow more types of human cognition. Therefore...?
Yes, a brain and a Python interpreter do not have a similar internal structure in evaluating Python semantics. So what? This is as interesting as the fact that a mechanical computer is internally different from an electronic computer. What matters is that they both implement basically the same externally observable semantics in interpreting Python.
Suffice it to say that I didn’t find anything here particularly compelling.
Yes, GPTs would have alien-like cognition.
Whether they can translate is unclear because limits of translation of human languages are still unknown.
Yes, they are trained in logs of human thoughts. Each log entry corresponds to a human thought, eg. there is a bijection. There is thus no formal difference.
Re: predicting encodings of human thought, I’m not sure what is supposed to be compelling about this. GPTs currently would only learn a subset of human cognition, namely, that subset that generates human text. So sure, trained on more types of human cognition might make it more accurately follow more types of human cognition. Therefore...?
Yes, a brain and a Python interpreter do not have a similar internal structure in evaluating Python semantics. So what? This is as interesting as the fact that a mechanical computer is internally different from an electronic computer. What matters is that they both implement basically the same externally observable semantics in interpreting Python.
Suffice it to say that I didn’t find anything here particularly compelling.