On this week's Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that #ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of #autocomplete - not our new robot overlord.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NHKMZZNKi0w9mOhPYIL4T
We all know that autocomplete is a decidedly mixed blessing. Like all statistical inference tools, autocomplete is profoundly conservative - it wants you to do the same thing tomorrow as you did yesterday.
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