>I don’t think ChatGPT can be said to understand what it’s talking about in any meaningful sense of the word—in the sense of being able to justify and explain itself coherently. Alas, too often, real people also can’t justify or explain themselves coherently, so to the extent that people can behave like modestly creative regurgitators of received ideas, ChatGPT looks pretty good.
After working in retail recently and also playing with ChatGPT a bit I can confidently say that ChatGPT is more intelligent than your average day to day human expression of themselves.
My first few minutes with it were much more sensical than the first few minutes I get to spend with hundreds of real human customers each day.
> ChatGPT is more intelligent than your average day to day human expression of themselves.
It may be just a difference in goals. That guy that you discuss with for one hour that he cannot return a dead dove to the animal store is no stupid, he is just very motivated to not understand the situation as not understanding gives him a change of economic gain.
As a once retail vendor, it's not as simple as bad faith.
But they happen to be very lazy, intellectualy lazy. Most of people lacks intellectual curiosity. They don't want to go to through the processing of information discovery and intellectual maturation of that information in order to arrive to some sort of conclusion. They just want a final, direct answer to every question they ask to themself, when they ask them.
They also don't question the information they are confronted to. They often take it at face value as long as it doesn't require them to think to much about it.
That's why it so hard to make change their mind once they have accepted an answer to a question, even if that answer is obviously wrong.
So what's the catch here? Is ChatGPT dumb because the average human is just dumb and ChatGPT is learning from the average human? (and HN audience is comparing chatGPT to themselves instead of comparing it to the average joe).
Or is ChatGPT is really dumb regardless?
I think a good answer to that is to train ChatGPT on limited sets of data. But OpenAI is not really very open about how and on what they are training this thing...
After working in retail recently and also playing with ChatGPT a bit I can confidently say that ChatGPT is more intelligent than your average day to day human expression of themselves.
My first few minutes with it were much more sensical than the first few minutes I get to spend with hundreds of real human customers each day.