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Ep 166: Newsletter 18: A weekend of Twitter

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Chat GPT Is a Fast Talker, It's Just Throwing Words Together

Chat GPT has become a little bit of a fast talker glossing over key points, getting some keywords in there, but never really explaining what cries out for explanation. The Neildegrass types of this precisely the same thing. We don't know everything about it. We can't program it ourselves, but we know what kind of features it has. It can construct new knowledge, which is not what's going on with chat GPT. I've asked chat GPT to construct the dialogue between David Deutsch and Karl Popper, where David explains what good explanations are to Karl Popper,. You read through the dialogue and you can see there's no depth there.

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