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ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI (It's very good, and that's very bad)
The Register (UK) ^ | Mon 12 Dec 2022 | Rupert Goodwins

Posted on 12/14/2022 8:00:54 AM PST by Salman

There's a new chatbot in town, OpenAI's ChatGPT. It is a robot researcher with good communication skills; you can ask it to answer questions about various areas of knowledge and it will write short documents in various formats and in excellent English. Or write bad poetry, incomprehensible jokes, and obey a command like "Write Tetris in C." What comes out looks like it could be, too.

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Ask it how Gödel's incompleteness theorem is linked to Turing Machines – it being software, it really should know this one – and you get back: "Gödel's incompleteness theorem is a fundamental result in mathematical logic [that] has nothing to do with Turing machines, which were invented by Alan Turing as a mathematical model of computation." You can argue how these ideas are linked, and it's by no means simple, but "they're not" is, as Wolfgang Pauli said of one particularly worthless physics paper, "not even wrong." But it's firm in its assertions, as is it on every subject it has any training in, and it's written well enough to be convincing.

Do enough talking to the bot about subjects you know, and curiosity soon deepens to unease. That feeling of talking with someone whose confidence far exceeds their competence grows until ChatGPT's true nature shines out. It's a Dunning-Kruger effect knowledge simulator par excellence. It doesn't know what it's talking about, and it doesn't care because we haven't learned how to do that bit yet.

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(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; computers
Emphasis added. I know people like that.
1 posted on 12/14/2022 8:00:54 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

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2 posted on 12/14/2022 8:08:17 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Salman

It doesn’t know anything. It’s just software.


3 posted on 12/14/2022 8:09:17 AM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: Salman

I might actually BE one of those people. Should I be offended?


4 posted on 12/14/2022 8:09:26 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: Dr. Sivana

ChatGPT is actually quite impressive. Register to use it and query things you know. Yu can as it to create an essay on the major themes of To Kill a Mockingbird and it does a phenomenal job. Perform a follow up query and ask it to reword the essay to avoid plagiarism, it will do that too.

I’ve asked it to create outlines for specific risks and controls in a business environment, it does exceedingly well.

I’ll be keeping my eye on ChatGPT.


5 posted on 12/14/2022 8:45:00 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Bshaw

>ChatGPT is actually quite impressive.

There are problems if you look into its answers. I asked what are 3 good places to eat if I’m in Cody WY.
#1 was a restaurant in Cody
#2 was a chain that had its closest restaurant 100+ miles away in Sheridan, WY.
#3 was a hotel restaurant it had renamed as something else.


6 posted on 12/14/2022 9:12:34 AM PST by struggle
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To: struggle

Cody is a charming area. My wife stayed there for a bit and loved the steak and eggs at the local breakfast joint on the main drag. Pleasant town. And, the airport does not show CNN.


7 posted on 12/14/2022 9:31:38 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: Salman

“It’s a Dunning-Kruger effect knowledge simulator par excellence. It doesn’t know what it’s talking about, and it doesn’t care because we haven’t learned how to do that bit yet.”

I’m going to ask it if it suffers from that.

And also... Has chatGPT ever made any errors?


8 posted on 12/14/2022 11:02:54 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Salman

95% or more are Democrats, I’d imagine.


9 posted on 12/14/2022 11:46:22 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Joe Biden is the dementia riddled, no-filter grifter he's always been - just now, we get to see it.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yeah, I love the place too. I went there and stayed in cabins on the Yellowstone side of town. Didn’t get to see the rodeo, though.


10 posted on 12/14/2022 12:55:36 PM PST by struggle
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To: aquila48

My friend asked chatGPT to write a short story about an AI that achieves world domination. The story painted the AI in a very positive light, with people willingly giving up all power to it and the AI being a “benevolent” dictator. But at the end, some humans try to resist to get their freedom back, but the story ends basically by saying “but they stood no chance against the AI’s superior intelligence and technology...”


11 posted on 12/14/2022 1:06:51 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: struggle

“There are problems if you look into its answers. I asked what are 3 good places to eat if I’m in Cody WY.”

It’s not a web browser, it’s text-based AI. Your Query is better suited for Google!


12 posted on 12/14/2022 2:00:53 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Boogieman

I wonder if he were to ask it the same thing again whether it would come up with the same or similar story or something very different?


13 posted on 12/14/2022 9:03:47 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: aquila48

“And also... Has chatGPT ever made any errors?”

Yes: https://mindmatters.ai/2022/12/did-the-gpt3-chatbot-pass-the-lovelace-test/


14 posted on 12/16/2022 2:24:09 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Sounds like humans have nothing to worry about.

At best these things are very rudimentary idiot-savant slaves.

It would be interesting to give them an IQ test - they would fail miserably.


15 posted on 12/16/2022 10:17:11 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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