KOK on Nostr: What may be enticing in interacting with ChatGPT is right there in its name: it is a ...

What may be enticing in interacting with ChatGPT is right there in its name: it is a chatbot, programmed to respond to us in natural language. It lacks morality, consciousness and the ability of inspiration and original thought, yet it sounds as if it has all the above. Its neat and often lengthy responses have the feel of a dialog with a sentient and authoritative interlocutor, when behind the curtain is only a sophisticated model trained to emulate human responses on the basis of the statistical patterns of huge swaths of input text. It may be able to produce seemingly fluent responses, but it will not interpret experimental results or access the literature in a manner that goes beyond the surface of stringing probability-derived word combinations together — and it will certainly never write real poetry.