New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text | Quanta Magazine
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Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

I’ve been saying this for about a year, since seeing the Othello GPT research, but it’s great to see more minds changing on the subject.

  • @akrot
    1•10 months ago

    Interesting read, basically the demonstrated that Gpt_4 can understand causality, using random graphs. Interesting take-away though is this excerpt:

    “And indeed, as the math predicts, GPT-4’s performance far outshines that of its smaller predecessor, GPT-3.5 — to an extent that spooked Arora. “It’s probably not just me,” he said. “Many people found it a little bit eerie how much GPT-4 was better than GPT-3.5, and that happened within a year.”