Alan Turing's eponymous Test states that we should consider a computer to be an intelligent thinking agent if a human cannot converse with it and figure out whether it is a human or a computer on the other side of the curtain. A skeptic might read the ChatGPT essays and conclude that no human is capable of being so stupid as to believe that the U.S. government can regulate the speed of light or the force fields of the Andromeda Galaxy. Hence the essay could only have come from a computer that had been trained by wokies.
I will immediately refute that skepticism with an example that, like the ChatGPT essays, combines astrophysics with contemporary political obsessions. Back in 2013, there was some buzz about Asteroid 2012 DA14, then projected to pass an uncomfortably close 17,200 miles from Earth. CNN anchor Deborah Feyeric, a graduate of prestigious Columbia University, pulled in Bill Nye the Science Guy and asked him "What's coming our way? Is this the effect of, perhaps, global warming? Or is this just some meteoric occasion?'
Ms. Feyeric kept her job for another 4 years. CNN management is not easily embarrassed. This all suggests that CNN, currently in a frantic scramble to boost its ratings and control its costs, could simply outsource its reporting to ChatGPT. Their audience would never notice.
While this is serious RUFKM material ... we do see in real life ascriptions to racism, or to white supremacy, of nearly everything. It is as though there's a computer program that can generate woke responses blaming white people for anything and everything.
After all, isn't the fact that the sun rises in the east and daylight proceeds westward an implicit subliminal endorsement of the notion that progress is always toward the global West and that Eastern cultural thought and aspirations will lead to darkness?
If you phrase the questions carefully it can actually write passable technical boilerplate. I would NOT ask it for philosophical output - you'll get pure wokery, distilled from the waterfall of leftist nonsense available....everywhere.
Alan Turing's eponymous Test states that we should consider a computer to be an intelligent thinking agent if a human cannot converse with it and figure out whether it is a human or a computer on the other side of the curtain. A skeptic might read the ChatGPT essays and conclude that no human is capable of being so stupid as to believe that the U.S. government can regulate the speed of light or the force fields of the Andromeda Galaxy. Hence the essay could only have come from a computer that had been trained by wokies.
I will immediately refute that skepticism with an example that, like the ChatGPT essays, combines astrophysics with contemporary political obsessions. Back in 2013, there was some buzz about Asteroid 2012 DA14, then projected to pass an uncomfortably close 17,200 miles from Earth. CNN anchor Deborah Feyeric, a graduate of prestigious Columbia University, pulled in Bill Nye the Science Guy and asked him "What's coming our way? Is this the effect of, perhaps, global warming? Or is this just some meteoric occasion?'
Ms. Feyeric kept her job for another 4 years. CNN management is not easily embarrassed. This all suggests that CNN, currently in a frantic scramble to boost its ratings and control its costs, could simply outsource its reporting to ChatGPT. Their audience would never notice.
For the benefit of anyone who thinks I made this up: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277529/CNN-anchor-suggests-meteor-hurtling-Earth-result-global-warming.html
While this is serious RUFKM material ... we do see in real life ascriptions to racism, or to white supremacy, of nearly everything. It is as though there's a computer program that can generate woke responses blaming white people for anything and everything.
After all, isn't the fact that the sun rises in the east and daylight proceeds westward an implicit subliminal endorsement of the notion that progress is always toward the global West and that Eastern cultural thought and aspirations will lead to darkness?
If you phrase the questions carefully it can actually write passable technical boilerplate. I would NOT ask it for philosophical output - you'll get pure wokery, distilled from the waterfall of leftist nonsense available....everywhere.