Thread by @IntuitMachine

What is the difference between these verb pairs? Hearing-listening, touching-feeling, thinking-understanding, talking-explaining?

There's a difference between the verb we use that can only be understood by grounding in this world.

It tried to see what GPT3 understood about exploiting and exploring. Here is the association made by GPT3. Exploring->investigating,analyzing. Exploiting->caring,using,respecting,testing.

It's clear that GPT3 extracts some nuance from the verbs. Exploring is neutral, but exploiting has an emotional nuance.

GPT-3 makes these associations with the verb 'interacting': relating,working,interviewing,questioning,communicating,talking,conversing,studying.

GPT-3 associates 'explaining' with describing,elaborating,understanding,talking,making clearer. It associates 'understanding' with studying,comprehending,researching,learning,analyzing,discovering,knowing,thinking.

Let's dig even deeper with the help of GPT-3. Why does explaining lead to understanding? Why does understanding lead to explaining?

Understanding leads to logic, logic leads to truth, truth leads to explanation. Understanding the self leads to explaining the self. Understanding leads to the truth, the truth leads to the example, the example leads to the explanation.

Explaining leads to reason, reason leads to order, order leads to progress, progress leads to understanding.
Explaining leads to learning, learning leads to understanding. Explaining leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to intuition, intuition leads to understanding.

Indeed interesting! But why is understanding like explanation? GPT-3 answers: Explaining and understanding are both a process of helping people to see.
Explaining is like understanding because you can only explain what you understand.