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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