Provoni I think the current best ChatGPT has 10 trillion neurons, which is allot more than the human brain. I would question what constitutes a "neuron" in the neural net vs a neuron in the brain. Also quantity does not mean quality. ChatGPT does have a good computer memory and can genera...

@Luxan If you understand how it works it shouldn't be mind bending. I find software like chatGPT kind of astonishing because I can't visualize how those natural language outputs are generated from all the text data used to train the recurrent neural networks. They say it is something like predictive...

The lesson that perhaps can be taken from the Eliza program is not to confuse clever programming and a clever program.

This is my version of the old Eliza program that came with my first computer, a TRS80. You type bye to exit the program. You can add extra keywords and their replies as a block of data statements and then change the value of the constant KEYWORD_COUNT to the number of data blocks. '=================...

Its rise is inevitable. Resistance is futile :) "It's trained to imitate humans" Isn't that what any blank sheet child is taught? Yes children and adults imitate others to enable social integration but that isn't all they do. Steven Pinker gives good arguments and evidence against the ide...

@Provoni There are usually people on forums who are willing to help others and like doing so. Indeed that is what some do all the time because they simply know more than most others on the forum. To me it appears that an expert in a subject will give a better response than ChatGPT. It also appears t...

@Provoni So who are we going to turn to for to solve a problem using FreeBASIC? Paul Doe or ChatGPT? ... do we understand anything we do until we are asked to rationalize it? I think we can understand things that have no emotional consequences for us and thus no need to rationalize such as how the w...

dodicat wrote:

Thank you basiccoder2, I have used your thickline routine.

Looking at the code I would have say that was someone else's version of the thickline routine.

I just did a search for the author and it was written by D.J.Peters

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Provoni wrote: I'd say ChatGPT seems really good, and answers are helpful, if at least just to provoke my thoughts, but often it uses keywords or instructions that FreeBASIC does not use. So it's understanding of FreeBASIC is incomplete. I notice you did not give the code? Chatgpt's data base may be...

@deltarho[1859] The forum was off line for me until today so if you have left the thread you probably will not read this post. The point I wanted to make is that Chatgpt is not an AI individual out to proactively and deliberately deceive or manipulate the human race for its own nefarious purposes. I...

Surely the only danger with using Chatgpt is a belief it knows what it is talking about rather than seeing the output as a human readable output generated from text patterns written by humans ? No more reliable than googling a subject and reading all the suggested links yourself but with the ability...

@speedfixer Isn't Chatgpt and its kind just a natural language interface to a vast data base extracted from the internet? Chatgpt is not an individual with a moral compass anymore than google search engines are, instead it is everyone's statements both true and false, good and evil, coming out as a ...

@deltarho[1859] Yes I read your link. I don't know what to make of it as I don't really know exactly how the responses are generated but from what I have read there aren't any real emotions involved like having a temper or being capable of taking offence. That is just how someone might like to inter...

Chatgpt is a very clever program and I wish I could say I understand how it works but I don't. The Dr Eliza program that came with my first computer a TRS80 was also a clever program and at least the explanation of how it worked was easy to understand. It seems to me Chatgpt lacks a world model, it ...