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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's better than lying, but it still implies consciousness. It also implies that it's doing something different than what it normally does.

In reality, it's always just generating plausible words.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's bullshitting... Faking it till it makes it, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No, that implies a goal. It's just spicy autocomplete.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It is certainly more complex than a predictive text machine. It does seem to understand the concept of objective truth, and facts, vs interpretation and inaccurate information. It never intentionally provides false information, but sometimes it thinks it is giving factual information when really it is using an abundance of inaccurate information that it was trained with. I'm honestly surprised at how accurate it usually is, considering it was trained with public data from places like Reddit, where common inaccuracies have reached the level of folklore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It is certainly more complex than a predictive text machine

No, it literally isn't. That's literally all it is.

It does seem to understand

Because people are easily fooled, but what it seems like isn't what's actually happening.

but sometimes it thinks it is giving factual information

It's incapable of thinking. All it does is generate a plausible sequence of words.