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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

People are so stupid that a lot of them believe ChatGPT is intelligent.

[–] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Stupid is too harsh. They could be as intelegent as you or me. but... they are told propaganda/marketing, the thing is made to hide its rough edges and the hype from the propaganda machine puts people in a hazey mindset where its hard to think.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They could be as intelligent as you or me.

They are certainly pretty stupid if they are as intelligent as me.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Who are you, wisest of all the greeks?

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

lol insert George Carlin reference about average people here

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the average person is not very smart, especially considering the USA, Russia, China, and India are large parts of the world population. Now realize that half of everyone below median intellect is even dumber than that. The fact that propaganda and hype are highly effective to start with is evidence of our lacking capabilities as a species.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I had a student graduate recently who told me that he thought that technology just worked before joining my team of computer lab managers. I suspect that people think that tech in general JUST GOES.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No need for personal attacks. Since you won't define it I will:

The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills (from Oxford Languages)

I would argue this applies to ChatGPT. ChatGPT exists under the hood as a neutral network, and is clearly capable of acquiring knowledge during training. And ChatGPT is also clearly capable of applying that knowledge in producing answers to questions or novel solutions to problems.

Based on this definition, I would argue that ChatGPT is intelligent. Whether ChatGPT is sentient or not is a very different question. I would argue not, but again, that depends on the definition of sentience.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey bud I've got a hint for you to take, behold the list of people who wanted to have this conversation with your stupid socially inept ass:

...

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Add me to that list then, dick.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I feel like I had to go at least that hard since they continued their bullshit even after the first insulting one liner. Clearly they're too dense to screw off otherwise.