My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
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Drew Kadel (drewkadel@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 13:01:32 JST Drew Kadel - Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 00:17:56 JST Paul Cantrell @DrewKadel @rjmccall
This is particularly excellent because it both gives a fairly accurate non-technical heuristic for the general public to reason about the thing and at the same time is also a technically accurate summary of the actual mechanism. Hats off. -
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Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 07:07:09 JST Annika Backstrom @DrewKadel I saw an article lamenting that the LLM couldn't reliably explain its "reasoning," and it's just such a fundamentally flawed idea about what ChatGPT is doing :(
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rob🕊️🇺🇦🌍🌎🌏✊:blobcatadorable: (robookwus@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:42:45 JST rob🕊️🇺🇦🌍🌎🌏✊:blobcatadorable: @DrewKadel totally true and right observation. I'm about to graduate with a master's in data science with NLP specialization, so I guess I also have some pedigree to judge this 🤣
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