I think a thing most people do not understand about chatbots is HOW SIMPLE THE UNDERLYING MODELS are.
It's really just statistics of how close words are to each other in a huge ass amount of written text, with a sprinkle of classification and labeling (done by humans).
And then it autocompletes your prompt. That's it, that's really all there is to it.
@thomasfuchs yes it has limitations, but even the proximity is governed these days by very interesting and sophisticated systems - it is now very far from “what’s the most likely word given the words behind me”
Like video games that are just a pile of hacks combined, but are able to deliver an immersive experience - these piles of hacks amount to very useful tools.
@Migueldeicaza I guess what I’m saying is that just because it creates complex results it is not at all complex itself; it’s very easy to trick yourself into attributing more to it (e.g. sentience) than is actually there.
Which makes chatbots into perhaps useful but also highly dangerous tools.
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