How is this different from humans?
If you give me the same coding assignment on different days, I’m not going to write my code the exact same way or even structure it the same way.
But I did once see a post on HN where someone ran an analysis on all HN posters and it was able to tell that I posted under two different names based on my writing style. Not that I was trying to hide anything. My other username is scarface_74 as opposed to Scarface74.
I think I’m beginning to understand the problem here. The folks here who keep poo-pooing these interactions don’t just see the AIs as unconscious robots. I think they see everyone that way.
ChatGPT's underlying structures do not. What it does, effectively, is look at the totality of the conversation thus far, and use the characters and words in it, combined with its training data, to predict, purely statistically, what characters would constitute an appropriate response.
I know that some people like to argue that what humans do cannot be meaningfully distinguished from this, but I reject this notion utterly. I know that my own thought processes do not resemble this procedure, and I believe that other people's are similar.
It’s all emergent behavior from a system that behaves under process.
But you ... aren't. The statistically most likely words coming after problem X may well be solution X. Because it's following the pattern of humans using rules. And context is also part of a prediction.
The only this is different from something just using rules is that it will also put in other random things from it's training - but only at the rate they occur, which for some things can be quite low. But only some things.