[gerdesj]

Its a model that takes an input and spits out the most likely output given its training.

"There's no way to definitively know what properties ChatGPT has." - yes there is: ask it how the war in Ukraine is progressing or some other time based thing. It stops in 2021.

It is a really useful tool but it isn't sentient.

[okasaki]

I don't agree. It's like saying humans are just animated meat. You're massively simplifying the situation.

[gerdesj]

I never mentioned humans or meat yet you decided to pop those words in my mouth (mmm tasty).

I merely tried to very quickly give a hint as to what ChatGPT is - it's a LLM and that is something that takes a (normally textual) input and outputs an expected best guess word for an answer and then does it repeatedly until the full answer is returned.