Many people have a HUGE misunderstanding of what ChatGPT is. It is not a
replacement for a Google (or similar) search engines.
It is a human language emulator, and does that pretty well. I can duplicate
many different styles of human writing (conversation, essay, poetry,
recipes, scientific papers, etc.) quite accurately. Note that it is the
STYLE of these things, not the substance! It just makes up "facts" to
populate the content of these texts that are in the style of (and often
created by the combination of real elements of) comparable components of
the thing it is trying to emulate. So it will create out of whole cloth
(well, out of "0"s and "1"s) references and bibliographic information,
'data', and so on. Accuracy is not the function; style is.
Furthermore, its corpus of material to draw upon is not up-to-date. I'm not
sure about the current version, but the one available earlier this year
only used a database up to 2020 upon which to create its simulations.
I was astonished over the last year by people thinking that some of its
features were new, or significant. I heard reporters saying "You can ask it
to write you a recipe" or "you can look up medical symptoms to figure out
your likely condition." Had these people never Googled a recipe or medical
symptoms (note: not advocating "Dr. Google" here...) before??
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 5:30 AM John Laurie <john.r.laurie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paleonetters,
> I had a muck about with ChatGPT and the results were less than stellar, to
> say the least. https://blotreport.com/2023/04/23/dead-wrong/
>
> John
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