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This isn’t true, though. ChatGPT answers are certainly not always true (like here) but they are correlated with the truth, not “no relationship”.

Gary Marcus is basically an anti-AI crank who only ever says bad things about modern research and wants to go back to the old “expert systems” that didn’t work. Ezra Klein is, well, too invested in his Ezra Klein persona (a sort of extremely nice, slow speaking, therapeutic Mr. Rogers for people who read opinion columnists) to have time left to combat guest bias.

In this case the AI is unable to count letters because we humans don’t let it learn what letters are, as we trapped it in a computer and only let it experience byte-pair encoding tokens.