ChatGPT Does Not Understand Anything

It looks like ChatGPT understands what you’re asking. It looks like ChatGPT understands what it’s saying in reply. It does not. Alex and I discuss what understanding is, for both people and machines and what it would take for a machine to understand what it’s saying. At the University of London, Alex Grzankowski is the Associate Director of the Institute of Philosophy and a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College. He researches and writes on issues in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.

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I talk with the smartest people I can find working or researching anywhere near the intersection of emerging technologies and their ethical impacts. From AI to social media to quantum computers and blockchain. From hallucinating chatbots to AI judges to who gets control over decentralized applications. If it’s coming down the tech pipeline (or it’s here already), we’ll pick it apart, figure out its implications, and break down what we should do about it.