why do you say that? You don't think stochastic pattern matching can feature reasoning as an emergent property? I do.
A stochastic parrot doesn't just mimic things totally randomly. It reinforces what it's seen.
A stochastic parrot doesn't just mimic things totally randomly. It reinforces what it's seen.
I'm not saying that GPT-4 is reasoning or not, just that discounting the possibility solely based on it interfacing to the world via a stochastic parrot makes no sense to me.
Here's a silly example I thought of. We can ask whether a certain bird is capable of "sorting". We can place objects of different sizes in front of the bird, and we observe that the bird can rearrange them in order of increasing size. Does it matter what internal heuristics or processes the bird is using? If it sorts the objects, it is "sorting".
To me, it seems perfectly obvious that GPT-4 is reasoning. It's not very good at it and it frequently makes mistakes. But it's also frequently able to make correct logical deductions. To me this is all stupid semantic games and goalpost-moving.
Yes, that's my point exactly.