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[OngBonga]

Well as you know AI is not doing "thinking" or having "opinions," any more than a chess computer "thinks" Bishop to g3 is a good move. It's just scraping the internet for words and phrases putting them together into English using some tricks.

I mean I just think it's a bit of a stretch to call this "artificial intelligence" any more than a calculator is AI. I guess a calculator isn't learning, but it's still completely at the mercy of the human who coded it. It's not an intelligence separate from humans. It's basically a super advanced version of a programme I could have coded on a Commodore 64 when I was 12. Instead of only being able to answer a handful of questions with yes/no answers, it can understand a complex sentence and respond with one. But it's doing the same thing. Nothing special about this, nothing futuristic or anything.

[Poopadoop]

I mean I just think it's a bit of a stretch to call this "artificial intelligence" any more than a calculator is AI. I guess a calculator isn't learning, but it's still completely at the mercy of the human who coded it. It's not an intelligence separate from humans. It's basically a super advanced version of a programme I could have coded on a Commodore 64 when I was 12. Instead of only being able to answer a handful of questions with yes/no answers, it can understand a complex sentence and respond with one. But it's doing the same thing. Nothing special about this, nothing futuristic or anything.

Have you heard of the Turing test? This is coming pretty close to being able to pass for a human.

It may not be doing anything different than a calculator in the sense that it's not thinking for itself or doing anything creative, but it does seem like a fairly substantial step closer to being good enough to fool you into thinking it's a person writing things, and not a computer program.

And that is a big deal with all sorts of ramifications. One thing that is currently going around academia now is that people are worried students will put their essay question into ChatGTP and have it write an essay for them. And if it does, and they can pass an essay question while putting in zero effort whatsoever and remaining undetected, it's a problem for education.