Connectionists: Chomsky's apple

[Geoffrey Hinton]

A former student of mine, James Martens,  came up with the following way of
demonstrating chatGPT's lack of understanding. He asked it how many legs
the rear left side of a cat has.
It said 4.

I asked a learning disabled young adult the same question. He used the
index finger and thumb of both hands pointing downwards to represent the
legs on the two sides of the cat and said 4.
He has problems understanding some sentences, but he gets by quite well in
the world and people are often surprised to learn that he has a disability.

Do you really want to use the fact that he misunderstood this question to
say that he has no understanding at all?
Are you really happy with using the fact that chatGPT sometimes
misunderstands to claim that it never understands?

Geoff
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