Comment by anonzzzies

So what is your test for when it is reasoning? It would be both reasoning and intelligence in all or most tests 25 years ago. But now we changed the definitions because ‘it cannot be, this is just stochastic mumbling’. You cannot say it’s not reasoning unless you can give me test that it doesn’t pass that humans do pass.

You in this and other comments vastly overestimate humans it seems; I dare to say that whatever test you come up with; I can pluck a random human of the street that will fail it. And chatgpt probably passes it now or soon. The tests I have seen that gpt fails on also trip over the vast majority of humanity. Not the few elite like probably you and me on HN but the rest yes; you want to say they have no reasoning power either or?

Gpt might be reasoning or it might not be; I cannot say as I don’t understand at all how I reason myself. Or how to describe what it is to reason in coherent terms. Or to test for it. But saying the substrate (meat vs silicon) makes the difference and, even though gpt actually does get a lot of calculations right even though it was not made for it and we don’t understand why that is, means something is going on. I think it will debunk most of the religious arguments we have to elevate us to something special like you and others try to do pretty soon. It seems we will find that our thinking mechanism is a few pages of Python and then trillions of complex calculations to train it. Animals like us did this over millions of years, we will repeat it in 100 years or less.