Human-Like Chatbot ChatGPT Says We Should Prepare for the Impact of AI

“ChatGPT’s fluency is an illusion that stems from the combination of massive amounts of data, immense computing power, and novel processing techniques—but it’s a powerful one. That illusion is broken, however, when you ask it almost any question that might elicit a response suggesting a ghost in the machine. “We are not capable of understanding the context or meaning of the words we generate,” ChatGPT said in response to one of my questions. “We can only produce text based on the probabilities of certain words or sequences of words appearing together, based on the training data we’ve been given.””

Human-Like Chatbot ChatGPT Says We Should Prepare for the Impact of AI
https://time.com/6238781/chatbot-chatgpt-ai-interview/
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