The question of whether it "grasps or understands" anything is irrelevant when you're dealing with a transfer learning model.https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/openai-gpt-3-language-models-are-few-shot-learners-82531b3d3122 …
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And yet, you are the one, in your OP, who celebrated GPT “grasping” an understanding of the law. That is precisely what I am pushing back against: it still grasps nothing. You can’t have it both ways.
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Fair, that was sloppy use of language on my part. What the takeaway should be is that even for people who "know" it doesn't have a cognitive dimension, the temptation to anthropomorphize/subjectivize is really really strong ;)
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Yes! You and I are in intense agreement on this.
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Good take on this:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/026327697014004001 …
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In more technical terms: the practical difference between "grasping" a concept and generating natural language on it (and reasoning w other concepts/rules etc.) and *really accurately* predicting what a truly reasoning agent would say, is very small indeed.
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I agree. And GPT-3 IMHO has a long way to go to achieve that.
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On what narrow domain would you say that GPT-3 is even close, or has mastered?
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Oh it *is* close in basic law. What you have to remember is, there's an enormous gap between rephrasing snippets and assembling an actual filing, brief, etc. It isn't close to doing an end-to-end job. But as a time-saving drafting aid for attorneys? Feedback is + from them.
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This is precisely a use case for which I would vigorously oppose the use of models such as this. GTP-3 may give the illusion of legal intelligence but a) only a trained lawyer could discriminate truth vs BS and b) there is no explainability.
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That's why I see the use case, at least initially, as a "robot associate" not a public-facing service. There are also a lot of developments in deep learning for assessing legal arguments etc. The results from an adversarial scoring-generation-refinement process would be better.
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Even then, IMHO relegating issues of material human consequence with no degree of transparency or explainability is dangerous. This is precisely what
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