We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

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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