"does something like ChatGPT actually display anything like intelligence, reasoning, or thought?" or is it just a stochastic parrot? And "if you’re just making a useful tool – even ... a new general purpose technology – does the distinction matter?"Yes. LLMs have a ‘reversal curse’ which means it will "fail at drawing rela…

"You Are Not a Parrot and a chatbot is not a human" - an interview/profile of Emily M. Bender, the "computational linguist at the University of Washington ... [who] co-wrote the octopus paper... to illustrate what ... LLMs ... can and cannot do"The paper: "Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Ag…