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> It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that:

This is a non-response.

Unlike an algorithm, humans have the faculties of creativity, intelligence and sentience. Furthermore, we have the crucial traits of self-awareness and being able to have experiences. We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.




That's not a valid argument; it's just the kind of nice sounding chain of claims a biological LMM would regurgitate.


> We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.

What makes you think this is the case?




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