[christopherwxyz]

I see ChatGPT more akin to Wikipedia and Google than a calculator. We don't consider Wikipedia or Google as much of a tool as they are a knowledge reservoir of truthiness.

[dumbfounder]

Have you used it? It can generate code. It can correct grammar. It can create Haikus (poorly). It can give you ideas. It is NOT just a knowledge base.

[User23]

It's absolutely a knowledge base. The "training data" is its raw database which is then preprocessed to speed up the query engine. Then it does some additional processing to return amalgamated results from that database when presented with a query, which for some reason they call a "prompt." It's clever, but when you view the training data as part of the program source code, which it absolutely is, the information entropy of its output is miniscule.

[gremlinsinc]

Google can generate code.

- Google: How do I ... - visit stack overflow - copy/paste - code generated.

There's more steps, but how is this different? Chat GPT though will go the extra mile and actually EXPLAIN what each bit does usually. It's not always accurate but neither is stackoverflow.

[bsaul]

It’s different in that the text that’s displayed in a chatgpt response never existed anywhere before you asked the question.

That’s what « generating » means, in that context.

[xwowsersx]

What is a "knowledge reservoir of truthiness"?

[christopherwxyz]

The only knowledge this system knows is whatever it can scrape and regurgitate that appears truthful. A whole bunch of positively true, but also many cases of falsely positive.

This system can’t prove its own work (at least not yet) before publishing the results. It just publishes, which is similar to Wikipedia and Google.

[recursive]

The school administration.