The next page in the book of AI evolution is here, powered by GPT 3.5, and I am very, nay, extremely impressed

[Chronos]

@Stanislaus

I know what you mean, but I think that way of phrasing it suggests a two-phase process that simply isn’t there. It’s not the case that ChatGPT decides whether it does or does not know and answer and then knowingly proceeds to bullshit in the cases where it decides it doesn’t. ChatGPT does the same thing every time. Sometimes that results in sequences of words which are correct - i.e. relate to the real world accurately - and sometimes it does not. But both types of results are produced by the same process - a process which has no regard to the real world. ChatGPT is always bullshitting in the strict philosphical sense of making statements with no regard to their truth value, rather in service of some other goal.

Sure, but I suspect that the same is true of Cliff or similar human bullshitters.

@Half_Man_Half_Wit

And of course, the point as a whole is facetious. I have perfect evidence that it’s possible for humans to do that, because I am a human, and I’m able to.

That’s, at best, a proof that a human can do it (and I doubt that it’s even that, but I’ll grant that for the sake of argument). To prove that humans, plural, can do it, you would need some way to determine whether any human other than yourself can do it. Describe that method, and we can then apply the same method to the chatbots, and see if they pass the test, too.