the68thdimension t1_j1o31er wrote on December 26, 2022 at 12:28 AM

Reply to comment by Gimbloy in Will ChatGPT Replace Google? by SupPandaHugger

It probably will, but I hope it doesn't. This person outlines why far better than I can: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/29/1048439/chatbots-replace-search-engine-terrible-idea/

inglandation t1_j1ocj8r wrote on December 26, 2022 at 1:53 AM

" But despite Pichai’s casual claim that his AI “understands” many topics, language models do not know what they are saying and cannot reason about what their words convey."

I've seen this before, but I've never found this convincing. How can the author be so sure of that, since we don't even know how reasoning and understanding work in the human mind?

Particular_Number_68 t1_j1oo8xp wrote on December 26, 2022 at 3:41 AM

The author is most likely wrong. Google itself claims https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/language-models-perform-reasoning-via.html?m=1 (Language Models perform reasoning via chain of thought prompting). There is no lack of skeptics in this field