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Also, ChatGPT isn't smart. It is very good at stringing words together, a facility which, when over-developed in humans, is not generally termed "smart". We reserve that sort of term for the capacity to reason, something ChatGPT has absolutely no capability for.



Can you show that humans aren't just language models?


Humans are agents who eat food and have memories from before their last conversation, so yes.


For now.


If you get turned into a computer but have to pay your own AWS bill, you're still an agent.


TBH, I think it is likely that quite a lot of human speech behavior is LM-like in terms of its internal "implementation".

But humans do so much more than that, as the other reply indicates.




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