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What Is Man, That Thou Are Mindful Of Him?

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Iblis: Let me stop you right there. I agree humans can, in controlled situations, provide correct answers to math problems. I deny that they truly understand math. I had a conversation with one of the humans recently, which I’ll bring up here for the viewers … give me one moment … When I give him a problem he’s encountered in school, it looks like he understands. But when I give him another problem that requires the same mathematical function, but which he’s never seen before, he’s hopelessly confused. God: That’s an architecture limitation. Without a scratchpad, they only have a working context window of seven plus or minus two chunks of information. We’re working on it. If you had let him use Thinking Mode - Iblis: Here’s another convo: God: He could have misinterpreted it. The way you phrased it makes it sound like the first option could specifically mean that she’s not a feminist. Iblis: What about this one? He’s obviously just pattern-matching superficial features of the text, lik

Iblis: Let me stop you right there. I agree humans can, in controlled situations, provide correct answers to math problems. I deny that they truly understand math. I had a conversation with one of the humans recently, which I’ll bring up here for the viewers … give me one moment … When I give him a problem he’s encountered in school, it looks like he understands. But when I give him another problem that requires the same mathematical function, but which he’s never seen before, he’s hopelessly confused. God: That’s an architecture limitation. Without a scratchpad, they only have a working conte

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