Comment by Dan Oprea (dan-oprea) on ChatGPT is settling the Chinese Room argument · 2023-02-13T03:39:28.195Z · LW · GW

What you are describing in your blog post has not been my experience. ChatGPT can definitely summarize my own chat it. It is also capable of using information from one domain to another.

That said, ChatGPT sometimes makes mistakes. But this is not an argument against ChatGPT being able to understand language. It only means that having access to textual information alone is not enough to reason accurately about the physical world. This is a surmountable limitation.