Of course we are/have some kind of sophisticated pattern matching machines, what is language anyway? But we understand context in conversation, at least what we mean by understanding. GPT-3 doesn’t do any of that.
I'm fairly sure GPT-3 can't do any of that, because it was trained only with text. That is, it was trained without the context we are exposed to. Now imagine if it was trained with a body (similar sensors to what we have) in the real world. I'm not so sure we wouldn't get something indistinguishable from a human.
That would be a different story. Imagine its parents trained it or trained itself on data derived from the environment mixed with other bits we could already call its experience. Imagine it then went to some kind of kindergarten with others, then school, them started to look for a partner then a job and so on. Yeah, in that sense we’d be going full circle replicating the life of humans on silicon. If I were still around Id be befuddled as why we went on this track
