I think it's important to distinguish between the following two claims:
1. If GPT-3 has a world model, that model is inaccurate. 2. GPT-3 has no world model.
Claim 1. is certainly true, if only for the reason that real-world agents - including humans - are fallible (and perfectly accurate world models are not essential for competent practice). There's no reason to suppose that GPT-3 would be any different.
I guess one might argue that the safe applications of GPT-3 require it to have a world model that is at least as accurate, in every domain, as individual hu... (read more)
I think it's important to distinguish between the following two claims:
1. If GPT-3 has a world model, that model is inaccurate.
2. GPT-3 has no world model.
Claim 1. is certainly true, if only for the reason that real-world agents - including humans - are fallible (and perfectly accurate world models are not essential for competent practice). There's no reason to suppose that GPT-3 would be any different.
I guess one might argue that the safe applications of GPT-3 require it to have a world model that is at least as accurate, in every domain, as individual hu... (read more)