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>When you are under its spell you will keep making excuses but when you are looking at it objectively you'll realize the emperor is naked.

It's not perfect, but you have to admit the emperor is at least wearing a thong. It is the second most intelligent thing on the planet at creating text, even with its flaws. Putting that accomplishment in league with naked emperors is astoundingly biased.

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Yeah, maybe it is "wearing a thong" since it's developers were so concerned about social acceptability.

I would say though that it is no mean feat for the Emperor to get away with being naked in public, it takes power and the ability to wield it.

Similarly ChatGPT has a few competences that add up to people perceiving it is able, one of which is the ability to come up with plausible and satisfying answers whether they are right or wrong (often using shortcuts) and another one is getting people to engage with these answers.

>It is the second most intelligent thing on the planet at creating text, even with its flaws.

This also puts it in last place.

By this, do you mean 'the second most intelligent thing' after humans?

A dog understands body language and subtle cues, participates in social hierarchy and community, has self-reflection, dreams, etc.

> you have to admit the emperor is at least wearing a thong

And a lot of people are getting turned on by it.

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