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UnlikelyPotato t1_izzs8p6 wrote

Reply to comment by Swimming_Gain_4989 in I made the Pacman game by iteratively talking with chatGPT (chat log included) by DEATH_STAR_EXTRACTOR

I've had it argue that it can't pretend or emulate a linux shell, opened a new session, repeated the same prompt, it worked. Went back to the original one and it just kept saying it can't emulate a linux shell...

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Swimming_Gain_4989 t1_j01ju3a wrote

It can imitate an operating system, but that's all it is, an imitation. It's very impressive but it's a hallucination.

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UnlikelyPotato t1_j04ofny wrote

I like my language models and reddit people to not debate semantics. It can imitate to the point of letting you write a bash script that interacts with the file system, "run" the script, and the imaginary script modifies imaginary files in the imaginary file system.

Realistically, because neurons are turing complete it could be argued that it is emulation...just an impracticable and shitty one at times.

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Swimming_Gain_4989 t1_j04pwrz wrote

Yeah don't get me wrong it's very impressive what you can do in the imaginary virtual system, but this isn't semantics. I subscribe to the philosophy that emulation doesn't have to involve computation but chatgpt is far too inconsistent to NOT clarify the distinction.

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