Grazie del commento Rob.

Io non sono un cognitivista quindi mi esprimo un'opinione consapevole che possa 
essere estremamente ingenua.


Trovo il confronto con una teoria della mente molto fuorviante, dal momento che 
le menti che conosco sono menti che posseggono una semantica mentre ChatGPT 
possiede solo capacità sintattiche approssimando quelle semantiche mediante la 
statistica. Per non parlare poi degli aspetti di consapevolezza...


Ciao, Enrico


Per non parlare poi

Il 15/03/2023 14:26, Roberto Dolci ha scritto:

Ciao Enrico,


le principali differenze tra il fanciullo e ChatGPT, di cui notiamo comunque 
essere il primo robot a raggiungere la performance di un 9nne sulla scala di 
teoria della mente (era 3enne solo a novembre scorso):


 1. il consumo energetico. Il nostro cervello non arriva ad una lampadina, 
mentre per ogni richiesta di ChatGP consumiamo una quantita' immonda di energia.

 2. la creazione. Il bambino crea la spiegazione, e poi la testa 
immediatamente, validandola o creadone un altra. ChatGPT parte dallo scibile 
disponibile per inferire e quindi imparare, ovviamente non crea mai nulla di 
effettivamente nuovo.

 3. la plasticita' degli organoidi cerebrali rispetto ai chip sotto ChatGPT e l'utilizzo 
della chimica nei processi cerebrali. La gestione della "potatura" delle 
memorie inutili nel nostro cervello e' ordini di grandezza piu' efficiente ed efficace di 
quanto disponibile con AI.  Su Zafferano di sabato


Un abbraccio
Roberto
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*Da:* nexa <nexa-boun...@server-nexa.polito.it> per conto di Enrico Nardelli 
<narde...@mat.uniroma2.it>
*Inviato:* martedì 14 marzo 2023 17:30:08
*A:* Nexa
*Oggetto:* [nexa] a proposito dell'articolo di Chomsky sul NYT

Si tratta di questo articolo: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
(mi scuso qualora se ne fosse già discusso in lista)

Ne stavo discutendo con colleghi di vari paesi in un'altra mailing list e in 
risposta ad alcune critiche fatte all'articolo ho scritto quanto riporto sotto 
(scusatemi se lo lascio in inglese ma siccome coinvolge l'uso di ChatGPT 
nell'analisi di un testo in inglese traducendolo diventava un'altra cosa)

...

I find your viewpoint highly interesting, even if I somehow disagree on some of 
your criticism to Chomsky's article.

I find an analogy between the way ChatGPT learned to master the language in 
comparison to human beings and how Alpha Zero learned to master board games in 
comparison to human beings.

The deep-learning based approach exploited in both cases (almost) all available 
data, either through their availability on the Internet (in the case of the 
language) or through sophisticated systematic search through the strategy space 
(in the case of board games).

Human beings become master (in both fields) leveraging a much smaller information space: 
the number of examples a child is exposed to while learning language is, just by 
considering time and space constraints, much smaller than what ChatGPT used. I do not 
know of any estimation of this (which would be an interesting thing to do) but I would 
say the size is inferior of some orders of magnitude (which to me implies the 
"language learning algorithm" inside human brain is exponentially more 
efficient then those used in DL - but that's a different story).

Moreover human beings know the "meaning" of their action and are aware of the 
fact that they know such meaning.

(See the note at the end supporting my statements.)

This appears to me to be an important difference between the two approaches and 
I think is the reason why Chomsky wrote that ChatGTP is not going to teach us 
anything useful about how human beings learn and use language.

One more interesting discussion of the Chomsky viewpoint, this time defending 
it, I suggest (in case you've not already read it) is the piece of Gary Marcus 
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/caricaturing-noam-chomsky

Best, Enrico

NOTE: To test my statements I asked ChatGPT to analyse a paragraph of my mail. 
You can read the prompt and the answer further below.

The answer is at best confusing.

ChatGPT fails to identify the text has 2 sentences and not just 1.

It does a wrong analysis of the first sentence, which contain two main clauses 
and not one main and one subordinate.

That's particularly interesting since right after the wrong analysis it "explains" that "a 
main clause is an independent clause that stands alone as a complete sentence". So, it writes that it 
"knows" what a main clause is right after having shown it doesn't know.

And the rest contains a number of additional errors.

So, even if the examples ChatGPT has been exposed to surely contain many 
descriptions of grammar rules, it has not been able to get any understanding of 
them. A secondary high school student, having received much less data and much 
less training is able to do a much better job.

CVD :-)


PROMPT
Please perform the analysis of clause and sentence structure of the text 
enclosed below between «»:
«Human beings become master (in both fields) leveraging a much smaller information space: 
the number of examples a child is exposed to while learning language is, just by 
considering time and space constraints, much smaller than what ChatGPT used. I do not 
know of any estimation of this (which would be an interesting thing to do) but I would 
say the size is inferior of some orders of magnitude (which to me implies the 
"language learning algorithm" inside human brain is exponentially more 
efficient then those used in DL - but that's a different story).»


ANSWER (ChatGPT release of Feb.13 - tested on Mar.14th)
The text contains one sentence:

"Human beings become master (in both fields) leveraging a much smaller information space: the 
number of examples a child is exposed to while learning language is, just by considering time and 
space constraints, much smaller than what ChatGPT used. I do not know of any estimation of this 
(which would be an interesting thing to do) but I would say the size is inferior of some orders of 
magnitude (which to me implies the "language learning algorithm" inside human brain is 
exponentially more efficient then those used in DL - but that's a different story)."

The sentence contains two clauses:

    Main clause: "Human beings become master leveraging a much smaller information 
space"
    Subordinate clause: "the number of examples a child is exposed to while learning 
language is, just by considering time and space constraints, much smaller than what 
ChatGPT used"

The main clause is an independent clause that stands alone as a complete sentence. It contains a 
subject ("human beings") and a predicate ("become master leveraging a much smaller 
information space").

The subordinate clause is a dependent clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. It provides 
additional information to the main clause by describing the size of the information space that humans use to 
become masters in both fields. The subordinate clause contains a subject ("the number of examples a 
child is exposed to while learning language") and a predicate ("is much smaller than what ChatGPT 
used"). The phrase "just by considering time and space constraints" acts as an adverbial 
modifier that further clarifies the subordinate clause.

The text also contains two embedded clauses:

    "which would be an interesting thing to do" is an embedded clause that acts as an 
object of the verb "know" in the main clause.
    "which to me implies the 'language learning algorithm' inside human brain is exponentially 
more efficient then those used in DL - but that's a different story" is an embedded clause 
that acts as the subject of the verb "is" in the subordinate clause.

Additionally, the text contains a parenthetical remark: "but that's a different 
story," which is not syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence.

END OF CHATGPT ANSWER


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https://www.hoepli.it/libro/la-rivoluzione-informatica/9788896069516.html
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Prof. Enrico Nardelli
Presidente di "Informatics Europe"
Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI
Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma
home page: https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli
blog: https://link-and-think.blogspot.it/
tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699
mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: narde...@mat.uniroma2.it
online meeting: https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/enr-y7f-t0q-ont
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