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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by kilgnad on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:29AM (#34800737)
I agree. It is reasonable to fear.

I'm more emphasizing how fear effects our perception of reality and causes us to behave irrationally.

There's a difference between facing and acknowledging your fears versus running away and deluding yourself against an obvious reality.

What annoys me is that there's too much of the later going on. I mean this is what literally happened to the oil industry and tobacco industry. Those execs weren't just lying to other people, they were lying to themselves. That's what humans do when they face a changing reality that threatens to change everything they've built their lives around. And by doing so they ended up doing more harm then good.

An in depth conversation with chatGPT shows that it's more then a statistical word generator. It understands you. This much is obvious. I'm kinda tired of seeing arm chair experts delude themselves into thinking it's nothing more then some sort of trick because the alternative threatens their livelihood. Don't walk the path of the oil or tobacco industry! Face your fear!

Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by _blu on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:02AM (#34802680)
I agree with most of what you are saying in you posts. I'm not sure it's only fear, but a lack of abstract thinking. I recommend you to look up Cynefin, which is a strategy for making decisions. People can't and won't speculate or change their mind if they lack the capabilities to do so.
Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by weatherlite on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:59AM (#34806841)
For what it's worth it isn't only arm chair experts who tone down excitement about LLMs, Yan Lecun's Twitter is filled with tweets about the limitations of LLMs https://twitter.com/ylecun?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5... and there are probably others as well. Yan seems to be one of the biggest names though.