Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?
by mcguire on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:24PM
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My understanding is that ChatGPT (and similar things) are purely language models; they do not have any kind of "understanding" of anything like reality. Basically, they have a complex statistical model of how words are related.
I'm a bit surprised that it got a lookup wrong, but for any other domain, describing it as a "novice" is understating the situation a lot.
Both answers were orders of magnitude wrong, and vastly different from each other.
JS code suggested for a simple database connection had glaring SQL injection vulnerabilities.
I think it's an ok tool for discovering new libraries and getting oriented quickly to languages and coding domains you're unfamiliar with. But it's more like a forum post from a novice who read a tutorial and otherwise has little experience.