We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

Re:We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it by tambourine_man on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:21PM (#34702769)

Haha, yeah. OK internet stranger. Take a deep breath and perhaps consider why questioning the certainties you so dearly hold throws you into an ad hominem fallacy.

Maybe check if the consensus on neuroscience is that the brain is definitely-for-sure-certainly not a predictive machine while you’re at it.

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Re:We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it by danaris on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:08AM (#34707470)

I work for a psychology and neuroscience department, and have done for over a decade now.

Does that give me genuine academic credentials? Pff, no.

Does it mean I have a reasonable high-level grounding in modern understanding of how the brain works? Yes, it does.

Again: You have made an extraordinary claim. You need to provide extraordinary evidence to support it, not just toss accusations of ad-hominem attacks at anyone who points out how thin your argument is.

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Re:We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it by tambourine_man on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:50AM (#34708749)

I have claimed nothing, only cast doubt on the baseless certainties that have been floating around this subject.

To summarize what I'm trying to convey:

- (Variations of the original claim) ChatGPT works nothing like the brain, it's just a prediction machine

- (Me all over this thread) Do we know how the brain works? Do we know what properties may emerge from a blackbox LLM?

If you think questioning awareness is extraordinary (or new) I advise you to read Descartes, the Boltzmann brain thought experiment and epistemology in general.

PS: you replied with credentials rather than arguments, which is still on the logical fallacy ground.

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