ChatGPT is not...
May. 3rd, 2023 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulya search engine, a database, an encyclopedia, a person, or otherwise useful in any way with the task of finding information.
Stop asking it to do what it was not made to do! And when it fails to do the thing, stop saying things like "I think it has the right book, it just can't give it to me for some reason" or "It admitted it was lying". No? Neither of those things is true!
It's a fancy, shiny Chinese room. Don't look too hard, though, because that fancy shiny paint cracks very easily.
Stop asking it to do what it was not made to do! And when it fails to do the thing, stop saying things like "I think it has the right book, it just can't give it to me for some reason" or "It admitted it was lying". No? Neither of those things is true!
It's a fancy, shiny Chinese room. Don't look too hard, though, because that fancy shiny paint cracks very easily.
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Date: 2023-04-29 10:58 am (UTC)Thank you, this was very helpful! (I used predictive text here, and I'm letting it stand but need to acknowledge it.)