Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of “The Black Swan”, has exposed the limitations of ChatGPT. ChatGPT fails to understand the ironies and nuances of history and produces nonsensical and contradictory responses. Taleb also criticizes ChatGPT as a mere parrot of human texts, and not a source of original insights.
@haritulsidas What's astounding to me is people expecting anything else from a chatbot trained on human text with a probabilistic approach to guess contextually appropriate strings of text following a text prompt, while the bot has no internal, conceptual logic which can relate concepts, causes and effects, entities and actions to each other, and no access to a database of fact checked information to compare its outputs to.
I may be getting ahead of myself regarding my expectation of people to understand how this technology works but shouldn't everyone have some sort of built in skepticism for a technology going from barely understanding and creating coherent sentences to seemingly philosophizing virtually overnight? Even if nobody exactly understood how it does what it does, I'd expect more of an inclination to believe it's more smoke and mirrors or tech trickery than the apparent belief in GPT's recreation of human-like intelligence.
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