Drew KadelMy 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:
Nate Gaylinn@DrewKadel Love this. We want so badly for ChatGPT to produce answers, opinions, and art, but all it can do is make plausible simulations of those things. As a species, we've never had to deal with that before.
Fabian Transchel@ngaylinn @DrewKadel Well we had - conceptually this is *exactly* the same as with Eliza - just two orders of magnitude more sophisticated and two orders of magnitude more connected.
At its core it's really just people lacking technical understanding hallucinating an antropomorphization of a conditional probability distribution.
With ChatGPT, the interface is the innovation, *not* the model.
@ftranschel @DrewKadel Oh? What makes the ChatGPT interface so innovative? :)
FreebirdFrolic@ngaylinn @ftranschel @DrewKadel
Is the 'man behind the curtain'
Innovative?
IMHO; it's all more smoke and mirrors to discombobulate an already gaslit world.