Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
by svachalek on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:27PM
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The subtlety of its communication is fairly astonishing. "Digital assistants" from the world's biggest tech companies can respond to a few basic template questions and commands and tend to fall back on "here's a link to Wikipedia, chief".
In the same day and age, ChatGPT can respond to a statement like "actually it's a cat" with "yes, my apologies for the error, [repeats a lot of stuff with corrections]". In the process it's recognizing that your response is a correction, what "it" refers to, some of the implications of what that change means, and that you are expecting it to issue a response that amends its previous statements. It's several generations ahead of the state of the art.
In the same day and age, ChatGPT can respond to a statement like "actually it's a cat" with "yes, my apologies for the error, [repeats a lot of stuff with corrections]". In the process it's recognizing that your response is a correction, what "it" refers to, some of the implications of what that change means, and that you are expecting it to issue a response that amends its previous statements. It's several generations ahead of the state of the art.