[LINK] ChatGPT

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2023-01-28 at 13:53 +1100, Antony Barry wrote:
> I'd been ignoring ChatGTP as I had the impression that it was just
> something being over-hyped.

I continue to be of that opinion/impression.

> To use this tool, the key is not in the answers it will find but in
> the questions that get asked and the follow up "chat" with the system
> to refine, elaborate and eliminate errors.

That sounds to me as if you spend as long coaxing it to get the right
answer as you would have by writing the right answer yourself.

> It is foolish to use it as an oracle without knowing what the sources
> are.

I confidently predict that you will never really know what it's sources
are unless you happen to notice its plagiarism. And just like the
original Oracle, you will never know what is really true unless you
already have the ability to produce that truth yourself.

These systems rely on bald-faced theft of humans' outputs - art,
literature, scientific works, computer code.

Regards, K.

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