ChatGPT and other tools based on large language models (LLMs) have taken the software world by storm. While their capabilities are incredible, they have also sparked a lot of fear, doubt, and hyperbole. In this episode we dispel five myths about ChatGPT and similar tools: 1. That they represent human-level intelligence 2. That they will cause widespread permanent unemployment 3. That they're accurate 4. That they can create original thought on a par with the best humans and 5. That they came out of nowhere.

Show Notes

• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
• AI And The Limits Of Language by Jacob Browning and Yann LeCun
• Episode 13: Artificial Intelligence

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