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You actually think this program is capable of thoughts like an organic being is? That's really scary!

We need to educate people about what's going on "under the hood" with these things a lot better I think.

This algorithm just regurgitates information that was originally created by humans, in a way that appears to be "smart". If you only train it on specific information or tweak some of the internals it will happily spit out complete non-sense for you.

I agree that this is a clever invention but it's not thinking or reasoning like a human or living create does, it's just really good at appearing as if it's doing so.

Parrots are able to mimic human speech extremely well but they do not actually understand what they are saying, the same thing is going on here.




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