The linguist Noam Chomsky wrote what in my opinion was a very foolish article in the New York Times called "The False Promise of ChatGPT" in which he tried to simultaneously make the case that a computer could never do what ChatGPT can clearly already do, and that it wouldn't make any difference even if it could, and that it could reach false conclusions if it was fed false data (as if that wasn't also true for human beings), and that it was terrible that it didn't give its personal opinion on moral issues even though Chomsky would certainly criticize it even more if it did take such a stand. ChatGPT reads everything so somebody asked Sydney what him what he thought about Chomsky's article and I think the machine gave a pretty good rebuttal:
ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky <https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1634009568341622784> Quantum computer expert Scott Aaronson also has some interesting things to say about this: The false promise of Chomskyism <https://scottaaronson.blog/> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 5te -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3tqi93Aj2LF%2Bc7yS9WUfnXUBSHjDCH5S4wY1TbvsFk2g%40mail.gmail.com.
