As humans, we are blessed with the luxury of being able to compare such statements to the shadows and determine their veracity. The difference between conversations about fantasy and the shadows of the real world is usually extremely obvious to humans: we never see dragon shadows. In contrast, dragons do show up a lot in the conversations in the first cave; GPT doesn’t get to see the shadows, so it often needs to stay deeply uncertain about whether the speaker is describing the actual shadows or something else to be good at predicting the conversation.
But aren’t there very occasionally real, physical, shadows shaped like a stereotypical image of a dragon?
A child might even be fooled by it after seeing images of dragons in a picture book. It’s only when we grow up do we realize that the shadow itself might not reflect a single discrete object.
But aren’t there very occasionally real, physical, shadows shaped like a stereotypical image of a dragon?
A child might even be fooled by it after seeing images of dragons in a picture book. It’s only when we grow up do we realize that the shadow itself might not reflect a single discrete object.