“It is perhaps best to think of them as “alien intelligences” from Planet Motherboard rather than anything human-like. The mechanics of how LLMs produce sentences are completely different to how humans produce them. Yet they can produce sentences that humans will readily “understand” and find “meaningful.”
I asked it a range of questions.”
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
https://quillette.com/2023/01/26/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-the-professions/
via Instapaper