Arguing with ChatGPT

TL:DR – When asked ChatGPT refers to itself as an artificial intelligence language model, but there are so many reasons not to describe these statistically based, text autocomplete tools as AI. I repeatedly prompted ChatGPT with questions and statements until it produced a more realistic definition itself.

There’s been a lot of talk about weird and inflammatory responses from the Bing chat bot in the last couple of weeks. By contrast, it’s difficult to get a rise out of ChatGPT. It always gives you a diplomatic response. Even if you push it with contrary questions and statements. I spent a few minutes trying to get it to admit that it is not an AI.
Despite the hype, we must all concede that text and image manipulation tools, no matter how amazing they seem in what they generate are not sentient nor have any understanding or actual knowledge or awareness of what they are doing. We are not living in the sci-fi world of machine consciousness…just yet.
Anyway, I prompted ChatGPT repeatedly to tell it that it is not AI despite its name and despite the hype. After several prompts I gave it the following prompt: “ChatGPT is really just a parrot. It can say the words, but it has no understanding of what the noises it makes mean.”
The following is ChatGPT’s response, which explains the fundamentals of what ChatGPT actually is and how it works and shows that it is fundementally not AI:
It is true that ChatGPT, like other language models, does ...

Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs