And appears to be easily influenced. :)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chatgpt-learns-bitcoin-will-end-central-banking-and-fiat-currency
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 7:27 AM Jürg Wyttenbach wrote:
> ChatGPT does obviously nothing else than 99.X% of all claimed researchers
> do! Recompile knowledge and claim this being new...
>
> Today about 1 out of 1000 papers contains genuine research that has a real
> value 99% of all papers is garbage. The remaining one 1% sometimes contains
> good compilations, or wrong claims.
>
> ChatGPT certainlay cannot do research...
>
>
> J.W.
> On 29.01.2023 12:18, H L V wrote:
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> ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World View
>
> That this AI is adaptive and can produce complex outputs is a technical
> triumph. But at its heart, it's still just pattern recognition.
>
> Blayne Haggart
> January 23, 2023
> https://www.cigionline.org/articles/chatgpt-strikes-at-the-heart-of-the-scientific-world-view/
>
> quote < correlation-as-knowledge world view. Many people have remarked that the
> tool produces outputs that read as plausible, but that subject matter
> experts tell us are often “bullshittery.” Engineers will almost certainly
> design more-convincing chatbots. But the fundamental problem of evaluating
> accuracy will remain. The data will never be able to speak for itself.
>
> This is the paradox at the heart of the correlations-based faith in big
> data. In the scientific world view, the legitimacy of a piece of knowledge
> is determined by whether the scientist followed an agreed method to arrive
> at a conclusion and advance a theory: to create knowledge. Machine-learning
> processes, in contrast, are so complex that their innards are often a
> mystery even to the people running them.
>
> As a result, if you can’t evaluate the process for accuracy, your only
> choice is to evaluate the output. But to do that, you need a theory of the
> world: knowledge beyond correlations. The danger of a dataist mindset is
> that a theory of the world will be imposed, unthinkingly, on the algorithm,
> as if it were natural rather than someone’s choice. And wherever they come
> from, whatever they are, these theories will shape what the program
> considers to be legitimate knowledge, making choices to prioritize some
> information over others.>>
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