Remember no matter haw complex an algorithm it is ultimately a lot of Boolean switching acting on what ever data is dumped into it.
LC On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 11:42:12 AM UTC-5 John Clark wrote: > 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/907f2e65-1214-4d88-838a-4d6e049459cbn%40googlegroups.com.
