{"id":160025,"date":"2023-03-11T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/i-believe-chatbots-understand-part-of-what-they-say-let-me-explain"},"modified":"2023-03-11T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:25:36","slug":"i-believe-chatbots-understand-part-of-what-they-say-let-me-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/i-believe-chatbots-understand-part-of-what-they-say-let-me-explain","title":{"rendered":"I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-believe-chatbots-understand-part-of-what-they-say-let-me-explain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cP5zGh2fui0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a rational exploration of what ChatGPT actually knows and what that means.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Try out my quantum mechanics course (and many others on math and science) on Brilliant using the link <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think that today\u2019s so-called \u201cartificial intelligences\u201d are actually pretty dumb. But I\u2019ve recently changed my mind. In this video I want to explain why I think that they do understand some of what they do, if not very much. And since I was already freely speculating, I have added some thoughts about how the situation with AIs is going to develop.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc8c Support us on Donatebox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript and References on Patreon \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Sabine\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Sabine<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It\u2019s free! \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsletter\/\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsletter\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw\/join.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw\/join.\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw\/join.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/i-believe-chatbots-understand-part-of-what-they-say-let-me-explain\">Continue reading \u201cI believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a rational exploration of what ChatGPT actually knows and what that means. Try out my quantum mechanics course (and many others on math and science) on Brilliant using the link https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. I used to think that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}