Posts about: understanding language

It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what they’re saying

It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what they’re saying

When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone. To smooth your wrinkled skirt, would you grab a warm thermos or a hairpin? GPT-3 suggested the hairpin. […]…