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There are plenty of people on the internet (including here) who think ChatGPT is a "smart expert" and who don't understand that ChatGPT can easily make up stuff that looks very convincing at first glance.

And if you challenge them, they also double down and say "ChatGPT is the future" etc.

So the lawyer is not alone...

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So you're telling me GPT lied when it disproved Church-Turing using only 3 lines of Coq?

What purpose is a machine that cannot be trusted? If I wanted that I'd use the cloud...

And I'm putting 90% of the blame for that onto the mainstream media, reporting irresponsibly and perhaps maliciously in order to milk a fear cycle out of AI. And some of it on OpenAI/Google execs, now cynically drumming up inexistent existential threats to facilitate regulatory capture.

Is it an interesting and relevant story that many people would be keen on reading? Nah, must be a "msm" conspiracy. Can't wait for the Weinstein take on this.

Stuff like it is certainly the future though. Primary flaw of OpenAI's GPTs are that they're just dumb text transformers, "what's the next best word to follow". It just so happens that it can answer a variety of questions factually simply because it was trained on real (and imaginary) facts.

It needs to be backed up by a repository of hard knowledge and only uses the transformer part to generate a sentence based on this knowledge.

At the same time, as much as it currently hallucinates it's still nothing compared to the misinformation that humans perpetuate on a daily basis.

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