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by ddalex 1206 days ago
I do not understand why people expect chatgpt to reason when all it is is a fancy probabilistic language model....

I guess humans have high bias towards trusting confident-sounding language despite what reason would tell us to do. That's how politicians and advertisment work anyway....

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I just thought it would be interesting, given that it has an understanding of XML to see if it could do a simple diff, "by eye" if you will. Obviously I wasn't intending to trust its output. We of course have long standing trusted tools for diffing files.