If anyone is still suffering from the delusion that what ChatGPT learns from word frequencies amounts to a general ability to perform even the simplest logical operations ...
@gregeganSF time to read again Peter Watts' Blindsight and his developments on the chinese room
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@boulesdefourrure @gregeganSF I had never heard of blindsight, but it sounds like a good read. what's the deal with the vampires though?
@boulesdefourrure @2ck The book where the vampire has surprising data visualization methods rather than supernatural powers. 👍
@2ck @gregeganSF nothing like Buffy, Dracula ou Twilight. More a way to handle notions of empathy/self-conscience/what does that mean, being human ?
And a good source of tension.