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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by standardly on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:15PM (#34810675)
> If you leave chatGPT alone what does it do? Nothing. It responds to prompts and that is it.

Just defending the OP, he stated ChatGPT does nothing but respond the prompts, which is true. That's not waxing philosophical about the nature of cognition. You sort of latched onto his last sentence and set up a strawman against his overall point. Maybe you didn't mean to, but yeah.

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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by throwaway09223 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:26PM (#34812466)
You may have missed parts of their comment, specifically "It doesn't have interests, thoughts and feelings," and referring to the Chinese Room argument which is specifically an argument regarding the philosophical nature of cognition.
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