Dec 202022
 

The Revolution: Dialogue vs. Search

As the past five blog entries demonstrate, I’m obsessed with ChatGPT. I’m trying to wrap my mind around what this thing is, whether it’s really a sign of major changes to come (as my gut tells me it is), and what all of this means for humanity.

Over the past several days I’ve become quite comfortable talking to the AI. Today, I moved on and focused on something else. But I found myself naturally wanting to turn to ChatGPT again, but this time it wasn’t to test the AI or marvel at its capabilities. It was to use it as a tool to assist me with my work.

And then I had a little epiphany.

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Dec 192022
 

What has astounded me so much about OpenAI’s ChatGPT is that it really seems to understand the meaning of what you say to it. But is this real or is it just a parlor trick?

Past AI chatbots have relied upon trickery. They search input text from the user for particular words and use if-then conditionals to provide canned responses. ChatGPT is clearly doing more than that, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it truly comprehends language.

Time to experiment.

  1. Can ChatGPT identify grammer?
  2. Make inferences?
  3. Identify nonsequitors?
  4. Identify nonsense?

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