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The philosophers make some good points - David Chalmers, for example, saying "there are surely many principled limitations on what language models can do, for example involving perception and action" and Justin Khoo suggesting that robot speech "is not speech in any sense deserving protection as free expression." But the highlights of the article are the responses from GPT-3 itself. "As I read the paper," it says, "a strange feeling came over me. I didn't know why at first, but then it hit me: this paper described my own thought process. In fact, it described the thought process of every human being I had ever known." Also: "Human philosophers often make the error of assuming that all intelligent behavior is a form of reasoning. It is an easy mistake to make."

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