Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
by thaw13579 on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:55PM
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I asked it to explain some very technical medical testing procedures to me "like I was five years old". It completely nailed it by truly reducing it to its essence and using appropriate metaphors that a child would understand (coloring books). Because of how niche the topic is, I'm fairly sure no such text exists in the training corpus.
I'm not sure whether this constitutes "understanding", since that term usually applies to people's cognitive states; however, if a student provided this answer on an exam, they would certainly convince the examiner and pass the test!
It is a copy/paste machine that strings together words to make sentences that look like sentences it’s read.
So it’s like an incredibly smart engineer/scientist/philosopher that does not and fundamentally cannot understand any of those concepts (or any concepts at all.)
A parrot that can recite Macbeth’s monologue is not a s Shakespeare scholar.