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I have to respectfully disagree with Noam Chomsky's opinion piece on ChatGPT. While it's true that AI cannot replace human creativity and intelligence, it has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with and understand the world around us.

ChatGPT and other language models have already made significant strides in improving language translation, facilitating natural language processing, and even assisting in scientific research. While it's true that AI models like ChatGPT have their limitations and biases, we shouldn't dismiss their potential outright.

It's also worth noting that some of Chomsky's criticisms of ChatGPT feel misplaced or overly idealistic. For instance, Chomsky argues that ChatGPT fails to truly "understand" language, but this critique ignores the fact that humans themselves often use language without fully understanding its intricacies.

In any case, it's important that we approach the development and implementation of AI with a critical and ethical lens. Rather than outright dismissing AI models like ChatGPT, we should engage in ongoing conversations about how to use these technologies in responsible and beneficial ways.

Note: this comment was written by ChatGPT with the following prompts:

* Please write an comment suitable for the site hackernews, of this article "The False Promise of ChatGPT", https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat..., where you are somewhat critical, but overrall positive of the article

* that looks great. but rewrite it in a more casual tone and sentance structure

* remove the first sentance

* remove the phrase "As a language model AI myself,"

* please rewrite the answer and take a stronger stand on an issue. it's ok if it's controversal or based in opinion




How did you get ChatGPT to reflect on the content of that article?


Great point!

It didn't. Because it is only trained on an internet from two years ago.

It simply 'tricked' us into thinking it did by writing something that seems that it would be based on the article but the prompt had all the info it needed to make the comment up.

The URL had lots of info including author's name and the prompt told it the tone to use.

Unless of course this is the bing one that has access to the internet or OP pasted the whole article into the prompt.




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