Currently reading the MS GPT-4 paper. At the moment I remain… unimpressed… by the model’s “human like” behaviors.

That said, I’m starting to think that there may be something profound here. Just not what the authors think it is.

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IMHO, the versatility of GPT-4 strongly suggests to me that ALL human knowledge domains may use the SAME underlying symbolic system and rules. If true, this means that all human domains involving symbolic manipulation may, in fact, be isomorphic to each other.

This is either a profoundly versatile map, or says something profound about the actual unity of disparate pieces of “reality”. I’m not sure which option is the correct on (though personally I suspect the first), but either way this is VERY interesting.

If true, this would be a profound epistemological leap forward: Humans have a single “map” that we have (more-or-less) successfully mapped to EVERY territory that we’ve encountered.

similar thoughts were circling my mind this morning