As I understand it, ChatGPT is scary good at emulating conversations and generating essays. It’s scary good at this because it accumulates information from sources like Google, consolidates the mass of accepted wisdom it gathers, and formats it into coherent English sentences. ChatGPT makes no real decisions of its own, does no independent thinking of its own and arrives at no conclusions of its own. We’re still decades away from independent, conscious artificial intelligence, though we’ve gotten to the kind of computer systems Star Trek used to show back in the sixties.
The problem is that then the powers that be throw the “special sauce” into the algorithms.
Let me know when they becom sentient
As we at FR know, sources are everything unless you are running your own experiments in your own lab or were on scene to personally experience and observe an event.
When we read an article published by the NYTimes, we know we have to triangulate/confirm it against other sources.