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fiftythreefiftyfive t1_j553mrp wrote

Reply to comment by khamelean in ChatGPT really surprised me today. by GlassAmazing4219

You can ask it some pretty obscure things actually, for which you can be fairly sure that no prior content exists, and it’s still able to create new material. It’s not just regurgitating material.

Especially good at essays. Can make an essay about why x from your favorite anime is inherently evil or not, for example, choose a length, it’ll give you a coherent essay of approximately that length. It’s absolutely capable of connecting ideas (concepts and scenes from a show to the idea of “inherently evil”, for example - or in this case likely, something that it knows about meerkats to something it knows about poker- and connect the two in a manner that is normal for a joke based on its training.)

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khamelean t1_j554iqc wrote

The point is that’s just regurgitating connections and associations that already exist in its data set. It cannot reason about those concepts to build new connections.

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fiftythreefiftyfive t1_j555avr wrote

What would “reasoning” look like, to you? What more is there to reasoning than building appropriate chains of connections? That’s generally how logic argumentation works. And as said, it builds them very coherently.

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