Questions tagged [chat-gpt-and-llms]

For discussion about large language models including, but not limited to ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc. The tag 'ChatGPT' has been deprecated.

Large language models (LLMs) are a natural language processing (NLP) technology that used machine learning (ML) to apply statistical patterns to produce strings of texts based on contexts submitted by a user usually to a chatbot interface. They frequently use artificial neural networks (ANNs) and semi-supervised, self-supervised, and supervised learning strategies to digest large corpora and produce human-like responses to user input generally based on distributional semantics. This tag should be used when discussing not only ChatGPT, but all LLMs such as Copilot, Gemini, Llama, etc. whose language production capacity is often difficult to distinguish from human-produced responses despite producing linguistic hallucinations.

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Is it possible for there to be an AI chatbot that is a philosophical non-zombie?

As far as I know, the current philosophical consensus is that chatbots like ChatGPT are not conscious. However, in analogy with philosophical zombies, would it be possible to have a "philosophical ChatGPT"? That is, a system that is physically…
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Does or could ChatGPT understand text?

The following argument concludes that the common understanding of ChatGPT (trained on text, receives online users' text questions, etc.) is not supported by the science. What criticisms are there of the argument which show it is unsound (one or more…
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What would it take for an AI to have beliefs?

This question is motivated by @Lowri's comment here: And ChatGPT doesn't "rebut" anything. It just produces words. It doesn't believe those words. It doesn't think those words are true. @keshlam expressed similar thoughts: determining whether an…
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How does the rise of AI challenge old notions about the ultimate nature of reality?

For centuries debate has gone on regarding the nature of “ultimate reality”. With "conscious" and "material" being two extremes in this debate, and with other views as some combination of the two lying between the extremes - AI has come to birth,…
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