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Comment by robertlagrant

2 years ago

I don't think that's what it's doing. What makes you say that?

From very nature of how these systems operate - they aren't capable of "reflecting" about anything.

  • You can ask it to summarize and write thoughtful responses. Based on how humans write other things based on their feelings, GPT spits out responses that read like a reflection

  • Assuming your assertion is correct, I still don't think that anything that isn't "reflecting" must be "regurgitating".

  • How are you so sure of the nature of these systems? Are you just speculating or regurgitating other peoples' speculations of these systems?

it's similar. it's a distinction of what a fact is... the full sentence may not be a fact, but it is a statistical fact that word X[1] follows X[2] most often after X[3], and most often after X[4], etc.