Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
by westoncb on Friday February 03, 2023 @04:34PM
(#34648014)
> No, it's saying that ChatGPT is not reliable
That's another way of saying sometimes it is right and sometimes it is wrong...
> All it does is generate text that matches a pattern
This is about as meaningful as saying, "all things are is collections of atoms".
We are barely beginning to explore the implications of these pattern-extending structures: their most interesting features emerge from their structure, cannot be simply derived from the fact that they do pattern continuation in the same way you're not gonna derive the concept of friendship from analyzing chemical bond structure.
That's another way of saying sometimes it is right and sometimes it is wrong...
> All it does is generate text that matches a pattern
This is about as meaningful as saying, "all things are is collections of atoms".
We are barely beginning to explore the implications of these pattern-extending structures: their most interesting features emerge from their structure, cannot be simply derived from the fact that they do pattern continuation in the same way you're not gonna derive the concept of friendship from analyzing chemical bond structure.