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@MadelynatTonic1 year ago
I think what Malik says here about the machine not being able to specify - or care about specifying - what symbols and patterns mean is extremely apt and should make all of us feel better about our job security :)
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Artificial intelligence

www.theguardian.com
ChatGPT can tell jokes, even write articles. But only humans can detect its fluent bullshit | Kenan Malik
And yet the chatbot that can write grade A essays will also tell you that if one woman can produce one baby in nine months, nine women can produce one baby in one month; that one kilo of beef weighs more than a kilo of compressed air; and that crushed glass is a useful health supplement.
It can make up facts and reproduce many of the biases of the human world on which it is trained.
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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.
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@JamesJalaPayneo1 year ago
Well said @MadelynatTonic 👏, it does lower the sting a bit. I can't help but wonder when, or if, colleges will have to train their plagiarism detectors to recognize this chatbot. If so, that could represent a little slice of human evolution in a way. I also wonder what other side effects might be.
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