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Peribanu t1_j9slh3f wrote

I was reading the linked article, and I opened the Bing sidebar to search for something, when I found that Bing had already (without prompting) provided a summary:

Welcome back! Here are some takeaways from this page.

  • The author argues that GPT shows genuine understanding of human languages, not just parroting or lookup tables, and challenges the mainstream view that denies this possibility.
  • GPT is able to follow instructions in different languages, even after being finetuned in English, which suggests that it has abstracted concepts from its training data and can map them across languages.
  • The author criticizes the dismissive analogies used for AI systems like GPT, which he says are based on false security and ignorance, and urges people to change their minds in response to the surprising evidence of GPT’s capabilities.
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Wyrade t1_j9t8z6t wrote

Yeah, by default the sidebar tries to summarize the page you are on when you open it.

It clearly doesn't work for every page, and I can imagine several reasons for that, but I assume it's intended and designed behavior to try to give takeaways.

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