Since ChatGPT I've become much more aware of my own thoughts and written text. I'm now often wondering whether I'm just regurgitating the most frequently used next word or phrase or whether it could actually be described as original. Especially, for things like reacting with short answers to chat messages, I am confident that these are only reactionary answers without alternatives, which could have come from ChatGPT trained on my chat log. I feel like knowing and seeing how ChatGPT works can elevate our own thinking process. Or maybe it only is similar to awareness meditation.
In this vein, ChatGPT is a nice way to start thinking about any topic; ask it about its opinion on anything and it will give you the most run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road text that is possible, standing for nothing. If you find yourself agreeing with ChatGPT it may be time to reconsider your own thinking!
LLMs may be an approximation of our knowledge, but understand that there’s more to reasoning than a language model. GPT understands how tokens relate to each other, but humans understand how objects, places, and abstract concepts relate to each other as well. We have a little further to go for AGI.
I do believe that GPT4 is a really good approximation of our language though, and feel similarly to you when I respond off the cuff.
