• ChatGPT is a recently-unveiled AI chatbot that has been met with mixed reviews.
• Microsoft has invested $10 billion in its developer.
• Terry Winograd proposed two sentences to test AI’s ability to parse natural language.
• Coindexing is an essential step to decoding sentences, and it is dependent on the verb.
• AI must have a theory of the world in order to understand language.
• ChatGPT has passed Winograd’s test, but it is not basing its coindexing on a theory of the world.
• Douglas Hofstadter’s work on creating a machine that thinks the way a human thinks is still in its infancy.
Published January 12, 2023. Visit Freddie deBoer’s Substack to read Freddie deBoer’s original post.
