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It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don't know what they're saying

  • Written by Arthur Glenberg, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don't know what they're sayingWords have meaning for people because we use them to make sense of the world.RyanJLane/E+ via Getty Images

When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone.

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