Connectionists: Chomsky's apple

[Geoffrey Hinton]

But if a learning disabled person with communication difficulties exhibited
the same behaviour, would you then say they did not understand ANYTHING?
Understanding is not all-or-none.

Geoff


On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 2:44 AM Kagan Tumer <kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu>
wrote:

>
> I'm very reluctant to use the word "understand" beyond perhaps ChatGPT
> understanding the structure of language (statistically). Here's an
> example of a ChatGPT response to a simple arithmetic operation where:
>
> 1- chatGPT was wrong;
> 2- worked out an example that showed it was wrong, but it didn't
> register that and double down on its wrong conclusion;
> 3- gave a high level explanation (also wrong) of why it was right even
> though it was wrong.
>
> you can forgive 1, but 2 and 3 clearly show ChatGPT does not actually
> understand what it is saying.
>
> Kagan
>
>
>
> On 3/14/23 9:54 AM, Natsuki Oka wrote:
> > [This email originated from outside of OSU. Use caution with links and
> > attachments.]
> >
> > Judging from the responses below, ChatGPT understands counting and
> > sorting to the extent that it can write a correct Python program but
> > does not have the understanding to bring the proper execution results.
> > count_and_sort.png
> > Here's the program that ChatGPT created:
> > ---
> > sentences = [
> >      "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
> >      "Python is a popular programming language",
> >      "I like to eat pizza for dinner",
> >      "The capital of France is Paris",
> >      "The cat in the hat wears a red and white striped hat",
> >      "My favorite color is blue",
> >      "The United States has fifty states",
> >      "There are seven days in a week",
> >      "I enjoy listening to music while I work",
> >      "Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world"
> > ]
> >
> > # sort the sentences by number of words
> > sentences.sort(key=lambda x: len(x.split()))
> >
> > # print the sorted sentences with the number of words in parentheses
> > for sentence in sentences:
> >      num_words = len(sentence.split())
> >      print(f"{sentence} ({num_words})")
> > ---
> >
> > The execution of this program yields the following correct results:
> > ---
> > My favorite color is blue (5)
> > Python is a popular programming language (6)
> > The capital of France is Paris (6)
> > The United States has fifty states (6)
> > I like to eat pizza for dinner (7)
> > There are seven days in a week (7)
> > I enjoy listening to music while I work (8)
> > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog (9)
> > Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world (9)
> > The cat in the hat wears a red and white striped hat (12)
> > ---
> >
> > Oka Natsuki
> > Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University
> >
>
>
> --
> Kagan Tumer
> Director, Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute
> Professor, School of MIME
> Oregon State University
> http://engr.oregonstate.edu/~ktumer
> https://kagantumer.com
>
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