A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning to happen that was not expected even a few years ago. A threshold was reached, as if a space alien suddenly appeared that could communicate with us in an eerily human way.…Some aspects of their behavior appear to be intelligent, but if it’s not human intelligence, what is the nature of their intelligence?”

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人工智能的隐喻


ChatGPT 发布几个月后，神经网络先驱 Terrence Sejnowski 写道，他正在应对大型语言模型 （LLMs） 所能做的事情带来的震惊：“一些事情开始发生，这在几年前也是没有预料到的。到达了一个阈值，仿佛一个太空外星人突然出现，可以以一种诡异的人类方式与我们交流......他们行为的某些方面似乎是智能的，但如果不是人类智能，他们的智能是什么？