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People Who Say AI Can’t Think Aren’t Thinking That Through
Now tell me how it can’t tell truth from lies
You may already know that I listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m retired; I have the time, and I learn many things while listening.
For example, today one podcast host explained the “reality” of AI’s like ChatGPT.
“It can’t think. It just strings words together and all of those words come from text it has been trained on.”
Hold on right there for a minute. Where do your words come from? Where do your sentences and paragraphs come from? How do you string words together into sentences? Do you know how your brain accomplishes that?
No, you don’t. You only know words that have already been defined for you or that you think you know based on the times you have seen them in context. When you add a word to a sentence, it may convey the precise meaning you’d find in a dictionary, or it might not.
In fact, you may have inferred the wrong meaning of a word and therefore may use it incorrectly. That may be true even if you’ve found a definition in a dictionary, because dictionaries can be wrong or misleading.
So tell me how your writing a sentence is any different than what ChatGPT is doing…
