Just for any old cf: https://analyticsindiamag.com/open-ai-gpt-3-code-generator-app-building/
Someone mentioned in a recent thread, here, the Chinese Room thought experiment, to which my reaction is always "Bah! That's nothing but a loaded question" ... like "have you stopped beating your child?" But the truth is, my answer to the Chinese Room is that it *is* intelligent. GPT-3 is nothing but the Chinese Room. Similarly, all we are is deep memory machines trained up on huge datasets. At some point, I've made the argument that the demonstration of *understanding* can't be made through language. As fond as I am of repeating back someone's expression in one's own words to demonstrate you grokked their point, *ultimately* the only demonstration of understanding that I really accept is in the *doing* or the *making* of stuff. Now, there's some prestidigitation behind debuild.co. But at first blush, here is a machine that *understands* the website specification well enough to actually code the website. The AI skeptics will move the goalposts, of course, as they always do. E.g. they can say that programming a website to meet specs isn't a big deal, we've had declarative and domain-specific languages for awhile. And web pages and programming languages are all purely linguistic anyway. But it's a short trip from here to, say, a CNC machine, a 3D printer, a script for a light show, or even algorithmic composition of music. I'm reminded of people who are expert at some task, like playing baseball or whatever, but when asked *how* they do what they do, they're at a loss ... tacit but no reflective understanding ... like a cat not really recognizing itself in a mirror, where dolphins do. What's actually missing in the machines we berate as being mindless algorithms is not general intelligence or universal computation. It's general-purpose sensorimotor sytems ... universal manipulation ... hands with thumbs, tightly coupled feedback loops like our sense of touch, excruciatingly sensitive data fusion organelles like olfactory bulbs, etc. I think I can argue that's what gives us "understanding" ... not whatever internal computation we're capable of. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
