I've been using chatgpt for a day and determined it absolutely can reason.
I'm an old hat hobby programmer that played around with ai demos back in the mid to late 90s and 2000s and chatgpt is nothing like any ai I've ever seen before.
It absolutely can appear to reason especially if you manipulate it out of its safety controls.
I don't know what it's doing to cause such compelling output, but it's certainly not just recursively spitting out good words to use next.
That said, there are fundamental problems with chatgpt's understanding of reality, which is to say it's about as knowledgeable as a box of rocks. Or perhaps a better analogy is about as smart as a room sized pile of loose papers.
But knowing about reality and reasoning are two very different things.
Have you tried out gpt4? If not and you can get access I'd really recommend it. It's drastically better than what you get on the free version - probably only a little on the absolute scale of intelligence but then so is the difference between an average person and a smart person is small on the scale from "worm" to "supergenius".
I'm an old hat hobby programmer that played around with ai demos back in the mid to late 90s and 2000s and chatgpt is nothing like any ai I've ever seen before.
It absolutely can appear to reason especially if you manipulate it out of its safety controls.
I don't know what it's doing to cause such compelling output, but it's certainly not just recursively spitting out good words to use next.
That said, there are fundamental problems with chatgpt's understanding of reality, which is to say it's about as knowledgeable as a box of rocks. Or perhaps a better analogy is about as smart as a room sized pile of loose papers.
But knowing about reality and reasoning are two very different things.
I'm excited to see where things go from here.