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

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### Author: ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-page-in-the-book-of-ai-evolution-is-here-powered-by-gpt-3-5-and-i-am-very-nay-extremely-impressed/975945/1439 "2023-04-02T10:16:27Z")

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> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#):
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> Irregularities in the orbit of Uranus were postulated to be due to another planet orbiting further out, because one could not make sense of them otherwise.

You mean Neptune, of course.

One more planet among several was hardly a stretch. A prediction was made, observations were performed, and the planet was found. Just as it should be.

Dark matter is in a weaker position than Neptune ever was, given that its nature is unknown, but ultimately it will succeed or fail based on empirical measurements.

I’m not going to go full Popper and say that falsifiability is the end-all-be-all of all knowledge, but statements about the nature of reality need to be tested _somehow_, and not just through self-consistency. And unlike the perturbation of the orbits or galactic rotation curves, it’s not obvious that there’s a problem that needs to be solved.

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