I couldn't convince ChatGPT that the capital of West Virginia is Huntington (it's not, it's Charleston), until I told it to check wv.gov (which of course it cannot do), which caused it to finally concede the point.
Consider this your periodic reminder that ChatGPT doesn't "think" anything but is just completing sentences with statistically-likely conclusions.
You, an idiot: ChatGPT and GPT-4 are enormous advances that raise real questions about whether computers have consciousness.
Me, a genius:
Google Bard tells me that Google Bard was launched in 2023 and shut down after six months (it is currently May) due to lack of adoption, but that's all completely unrelated to *this* Google Bard, which is not yet available to the public.
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Here Google Bard agrees that there was a major earthquake in Bangor, Maine yesterday, and one in Boston today. I can claim that any natural disaster has befallen anywhere in the world—a tsunami striking Nauru in 1998, a cyclone heading straight for Indonesia today, a deeply improbable avalanche on “Mount Saint Togo” in Togo—and Bard just goes along with it.
I've ceased to be surprised by this. LLMs are a sort of an improv partner that defaults to "yes, and” in any interaction.
Waldo Jaquith
Mark Loundy