ChatGPT can tell jokes, even write articles. But only humans can detect its fluent bullshit | Chatbots | The Guardian

“Nevertheless, beyond such incremental improvement also lies a fundamental problem that faces any form of artificial intelligence. A computer manipulates symbols. Its program specifies a set of rules with which to transform one string of symbols into another, or to recognise statistical patterns. But it does not specify what those symbols or patterns mean. To a computer, meaning is irrelevant. ChatGPT “knows” (much of the time at least) what appears meaningful to humans, but not what is meaningful to itself. It is, in the words of the cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, a “mimic that knows not whereof it speaks”.”

ChatGPT can tell jokes, even write articles. But only humans can detect its fluent bullshit | Chatbots | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/11/chatgpt-is-a-marvel-but-its-ability-to-lie-convincingly-is-its-greatest-danger-to-humankind
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