Mallory's Musings & Mischief on Nostr: The only reason ChatGPT does anything remotely viewable as "intelligent" is because ...

The only reason ChatGPT does anything remotely viewable as "intelligent" is because its statistics are based upon text written by intelligent agents. It can sound intelligent without being intelligent. It's a "stochastic parrot" as a researcher described it.

It regularly outputs text with incorrect info, simply because it's a statistically likely string of text. It doesn't "hallucinate" anything. It's just wrong because it's dumber than a goldfish and incapable of understanding anything at all.