<story><title>The False Promise of ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>It seems pretty obvious to me, after using chatGPT for nearly everything over the last few weeks, that it does not have the kind of intelligence that they&amp;#x27;re claiming it does not have.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just recycling things that other humans have said. Which is marvelous because it would typically take me a very long time to build a map between the past contributions of those humans and the work that&amp;#x27;s presently in front of me.  It&amp;#x27;s like I&amp;#x27;m temporarily everybody.&lt;p&gt;By raising the alarm re: it&amp;#x27;s not what you think it is, I fear they&amp;#x27;re actually fueling the fire re: people thinking that that&amp;#x27;s what it is.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like if I went on record saying I didn&amp;#x27;t steal something which hasn&amp;#x27;t gone missing. Now everybody&amp;#x27;s thinking about its non-theft and not something more useful like how to best make use of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s just recycling things that other humans have said.&lt;p&gt;This seems false, unless you mean that everything anyone says is just words others have said in a different order.&lt;p&gt;For example, I asked ChatGPT: &amp;quot;Write a fictional story of if Peter Parker joined the 2016 OKC Thunder.&amp;quot;  One of my favorite parts is: &amp;quot;...determined to balance his superhero duties with his love of basketball. He even designed a special suit that allowed him to play without revealing his identity.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t recycling... at least not in the way I think a lot of people think of recycling.</text></comment>
<story><title>The False Promise of ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>It seems pretty obvious to me, after using chatGPT for nearly everything over the last few weeks, that it does not have the kind of intelligence that they&amp;#x27;re claiming it does not have.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just recycling things that other humans have said. Which is marvelous because it would typically take me a very long time to build a map between the past contributions of those humans and the work that&amp;#x27;s presently in front of me.  It&amp;#x27;s like I&amp;#x27;m temporarily everybody.&lt;p&gt;By raising the alarm re: it&amp;#x27;s not what you think it is, I fear they&amp;#x27;re actually fueling the fire re: people thinking that that&amp;#x27;s what it is.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like if I went on record saying I didn&amp;#x27;t steal something which hasn&amp;#x27;t gone missing. Now everybody&amp;#x27;s thinking about its non-theft and not something more useful like how to best make use of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>I think people are miss that while chatgpt isn’t the destination it’s an incredible way station in the way that shows meaningful progress. It’s deficiencies can be built around with other techniques, much like our mind isn’t a single model but an ensemble of various models and processes in a feedback and control loop. By not seeing that, people erroneously discount both its amazing utility within its limits and the astounding breakthrough it is in evolving a roadmap to the destination.  These last two years have proven to me beyond a doubt that we are very close to the AI people are disappointed chatgpt isn’t, while before that I had entirely written of AI as a pursuit.</text></comment>