My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

@DrewKadel Does that image have alt text? I don't see the usual tooltip that I expect to pop up over an image...

Anyway, I like the response. I also think it's worth keeping in mind that (many) people are hoping this line of machine learning research is going to lead to a system that *does* give real answers, or at least is good enough at completion that its responses are indistinguishable from real answers. So there's always going to be a drive to test how well the models are doing and to push them toward giving more realistic and reliable responses, regardless of the fact that they're not actually designed to do that.

@diazona @DrewKadel But why? What would be the purpose of a machine learning system that does give good answers?

@newrambler @diazona @DrewKadel

The purpose is to gain attention. The Turing Test was shattered when ChatGPT accused a real lawyer with a fake crime.

@j7748283 @newrambler @diazona But real people defame real people all the time! Look at Sidney Powell, Fox News and Dominion election systems!