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ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving

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Re: ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving

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Post by simonw »

The original story here was published on December 11th 2022, just 12 days after the launch of ChatGPT (running on GPT-3.5).

I feel most of this document (the bit that evaluates examples of ChatGPT output) is more of historic interest than a useful critique of the state of LLMs in 2025.

Re: ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving

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Post by knowknow »

It’s always baffling how people take a technology that wasn’t even thought as feasible a decade ago and try to dismiss it as trivial and stagnant. It’s pretty clear that LLMs have improved rapidly and have successfully become better writers than the majority of people alive. To try and present this as just random pattern matching seems as just a way to assuage fears of being replaced.

It’s also amusing that people minimize it by just calling it pattern matching, as if human reasoning isn’t built upon recognizing patterns in past experiences.

Re: ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving

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Post by bulatb »

knowknow wrote: post #6

It’s always baffling how people take a technology that wasn’t even thought as feasible a decade ago and try to dismiss it as trivial and stagnant. It’s pretty clear that LLMs have improved rapidly and have successfully become better writers than the majority of people alive. To try and present this as just random pattern matching seems as just a way to assuage fears of being replaced. It’s also amusing that people mi…

You can't interrogate your qualia. A lot of people think (or really, feel) that makes them magic.

It doesn't.

But if you feel they're magic, you'll never believe that a "random" mechanical process, which you think you can interrogate, could ever really have that spark.

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