Dave5

A super important read. Cuts thru the BS and asks the big “is it an intelligence” questions. Get a coffee, do the mahi for 10 mins.

There are three things that the existence of LLMs, such as ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 make us have to rethink. At different times and amongst different communities they have all had lots of AI researchers talking about them, often with much passion.

Here are three things to note:

1. The Turing Test has evaporated.
2. Searle’s Chinese Room showed up, uninvited.
3. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar needs some bolstering if it is to survive.

We’ll talk about each in turn.