This comment and many others speculate on the limits of ChatGPT based on assumptions about what ChatGPT does that are not quite accurate. In particular, ChatGPT does not simply output the “most semantically popular result”. That description applies only to the base model, before instruction tuning and RLHF.

As for the speculation itself, e.g., “as soon as you merge two subjects, you are right back to gambling semantics as logic”, it may be suggestive to consider that such models have learned to translate between English and French after having only trained on the two languages separately.