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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Chat GPT, and the many other similar systems, are unable to conceive of something new or original, merely imitate what has already come before.

Students who use it to write essays are shooting themselves in the foot, because, chances are, they can't think for themselves either.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think of Chat GPT like a sometimes-inaccurate-calculator. There may be some legitimate uses for the technology, but it's still nice to know how to multiply numbers without it.

[–] Restaldt 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Chat GPT, and the many other similar systems, are unable to conceive of something new or original, merely imitate what has already come before

This. God do i hate that LLMs are called generative ai

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are generative in the sense of generating output, nothing more. With the "intelligence" part of the AI we got a fluke, should've called it something else until it gets to the real intelligence level (that is now dubbed AGI)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Except they can absolutely come up with new things; their responses aren't just cut and pasted bites of previous text snippets. They are generated based on a neural network's idea of what the most likely next token is, and tokens are often fragments of words. There's a reason you can have it do arbitrary things with text- Because it's doing slightly deeper things than just imitation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most people can't do that and generative AI, no matter how limited is still better than the average shlub.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago

Chat GPT, and the many other similar systems, are unable to conceive of something new or original, merely imitate what has already come before.

So it does what grade school teachers expect of their students?