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>such a good job of masquerading as human thinking indicates that much of human thinking isn't much more than that.

No, that doesn’t follow. It just means it roughly looks like human thinking.

Your comment is akin to saying a high resolution photo of a human has basically figured out a way to replicate humans. It looks like it in one aspect but it’s laughably wrong. Humans thought without language.

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chatgpt is only laughably wrong to educated people. it's sadly better than most people can achieve on their own. Even for educated people, the laughable part is only a personal quirk that they focus on for psychological reasons, but taken seriously a paper written by chatgpt is a good place to start and would save an educated person a lot of time in just touching it up to make it presentable, or changing the query to pare down its search for a better starting point.

It's not doing nothing, it's doing a lot.

> taken seriously a paper written by chatgpt is a good place to start and would save an educated person a lot of time in just touching it up to make it presentable

If we ignore the minor requirement of the paper having any connection to reality, of course.

Judging from a lot of the commentary on this subject, it appears to me that a surprising number of people think that reality is little more than a quaint idea.

You’re still missing the forest for the trees. It is doing a lot and it’s better at producing text that is how a human would write about topics better than many humans.

That’s not at all related to being close to general human intelligence.

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