[zuppy]

from my understanding, anybody please correct me if i'm wrong, ChatGPT can not really invent anything, it can just generate text based on probabilities obtained from the mountain of source documents used for training it. it does not think in the same way we do, it is just amazing at writing coherent phrases (and very simple code).

there's a quite long article from Stephen Wolfram about how it works and this is why I belive it can't do that: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

[idiotsecant]

What does it mean to say that it can't invent anything? If, for example, I ask it to make a new poem with no line previously recorded in the english language it will do so. If I google that poem to test it's originality I won't find a match. It seems to me it just made something novel, right?

[panarky]

When humans write new literature, or design new games, are we simply remixing elements of language and game mechanics that we've seen before, or is there something more going on?

[BoiledCabbage]

Who else's experiences can we pull from but our own? It can be anything else.

[BurningFrog]

You may be splitting the wrong hair here.

However it generates a text, that text may describe what for practical purposes is a new invention.

[coldtea]

>it does not think in the same way we do

And how do we think exactly? Don't we have a brain trained on input (livable experience, knowledge from books, school, videos, conversations, etc) and generating text based on probabilities (weighted sets of neurons with weights built from that set)?