{"id":13399,"date":"2024-02-06T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13399"},"modified":"2024-02-06T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:28:45","slug":"new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text\/13399\/","title":{"rendered":"New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Quanta Magazine, Jan 22, 2024.\u00a0 Artificial intelligence seems more powerful than ever, with chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT capable of producing uncannily humanlike text. But for all their talents, these bots still leave researchers wondering: Do such models actually understand\u00a0what they are saying? \u201cClearly, some people believe they do,\u201d said the AI pioneer\u00a0Geoff Hinton\u00a0in a\u00a0recent conversation\u00a0with Andrew Ng, \u201cand some people believe they are just stochastic parrots.\u201d This evocative phrase comes from a 2021\u00a0paper\u00a0co-authored by\u00a0Emily Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington. It suggests that large language models (LLMs) \u2014 which form the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text\/13399\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Quanta Magazine, Jan 22, 2024.\u00a0 Artificial intelligence seems more powerful than ever, with chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT capable of producing uncannily humanlike text. But for all their talents, these bots still leave researchers wondering: Do such models actually understand\u00a0what they are saying? \u201cClearly, some people believe they do,\u201d said the AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,1169,791,1268,243],"class_list":["post-13399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-deep-learning","tag-llm","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13400,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions\/13400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}