[earth-adventure]

I'm really stunned by the fact that, it seems, so few people get this. It's not a robot in the dense of Commander Data from Star Trek. It's a recursive software method that just has unfathomable amounts of data to base it's guess for some correct sentences on.

There is no logic, no reasoning, no nothing. Yet people complain it's 'giving me wrong answers'. Well, it doesn't know what's it's giving you either way. It only knows the statistics or odds about the sentences it creates being similar to what others have said before.

[tropicalbeach]

You could say the same about your brain. You predict the best thing to say at the moment all the time. You make predictions off everything you do.

[hnfong]

And "Free Will" is the observation of one's inability to predict one's own actions.

As an aside, the claims that people are willing to make about language models are quite astounding considering that they never seem to realize that most of those claims apply to humans also...