What?
> It just spits out the most statistically likely response to the prompt.
This is how humans work.
> It cannot think. It cannot reason.
ChatGPT is already better at thinking (and reasoning) than some humans, albeit in a different manner.
How is human thought remotely comparable to these transformer models? As humans, we see a prompt, break it down into its component ideas, compare it to our prior thoughts, memories, and feelings, and build connections that that we ultimately use to generate an appropriate response. We definitely don't just try to guess what the other humans we've heard from might have said in our place.
> ChatGPT is already better at thinking (and reasoning) than some humans, albeit in a different manner.
We can do plenty of thinking and reasoning in ways that ChatGPT can't. It's just that reasoning isn't necessary to hold a compelling conversation, since speech is relatively trivial to synthesize from prior knowledge alone. And people can generally get by in life without having to think or reason much every minute of the day, perhaps leading to the false perception that it is wholly unnecessary.
The above was also generated by ChatGTP: https://imgur.com/a/g1CEZbR
This is probably true, but what test would we use to know the difference between something that can reason and something that can not?
Of course it can. What a ridiculous claim.
We need to educate people about what's going on "under the hood" with these things a lot better I think.
This algorithm just regurgitates information that was originally created by humans, in a way that appears to be "smart". If you only train it on specific information or tweak some of the internals it will happily spit out complete non-sense for you.
I agree that this is a clever invention but it's not thinking or reasoning like a human or living create does, it's just really good at appearing as if it's doing so.
Parrots are able to mimic human speech extremely well but they do not actually understand what they are saying, the same thing is going on here.
It cannot be persuaded.
> It cannot reason.
It cannot be reasoned with.