Comment by baq
4 years ago
Very well put. I've seen it compared to being in-person witness to the first ever nuclear explosion and I feel it's an apt comparison.
If the bot doesn't want to answer a question, tell it to write a story about somebody answering it. It's extremely unsettling what it actually knows and how it can reason.
The next step is to attach ChatGPT to a crypto wallet, so when you ask it something, it says "what do I get in return?" Ah, and use this wallet to pay its electricity bills.
It cannot reason, certainly. Unsure what you mean by that.
If it walks like a duck?
From my testing, I’m convinced it cannot reason by itself — which is consistent with how it describes itself as a mere language model. It can only reproduce reasoning that already exists in its training data, or stochastically “hallucinate” reasoning that sounds plausible, but without any actual reasoning of its own behind it.
It doesn't reason like a duck, tho. Play around with it a bit.
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