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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Clever toys are fun. But does ChatGPT show progress toward useful A.I.s good enough to do valuable work?
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Think of ChatGPT et al. as large databases of knowledge that can be searched with normal sentences and will provide an answer in the same format.
If you yourself is knowledgeable in a field, you will be able to put in a sensible question and should be able to figure out if the answer makes sense in the given context. And you need to analyze the reply, because sometimes the LLM (Large Language Model) will output something nonsensical or factually false while trying to use language that sounds authoritative.
The first part of the breakthrough LLMs present is the ability to analyze a sentence with reasonable accuracy and translate that into something a computer can understand. The second part is the ability to take a query and put together a human readable reply using various language rules (and a massive database of examples). Or put together components of an image for the algorithms focused on that.