{"id":981,"date":"2023-02-27T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/02\/27\/qa-chatgpt-isnt-sentient-its-a-next-word-prediction-engine\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:10:05","slug":"qa-chatgpt-isnt-sentient-its-a-next-word-prediction-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/02\/27\/qa-chatgpt-isnt-sentient-its-a-next-word-prediction-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: ChatGPT isn&#8217;t sentient, it\u2019s a next-word prediction engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to generate textual answers that can be indistinguishable from human responses. The chatbot platform and its underlying large language model \u2014 GPT-3 \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3687614\/how-enterprises-can-use-chatgpt-and-gpt-3.html\">can be valuable tools<\/a> to automate functions, help with creative ideas, and even suggest new computer code and fixes for broken apps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The generative AI technology\u00a0\u2014 or chatbots\u00a0\u2014 have been overhyped and in some cases even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/google-engineer-claims-ai-chatbot-is-sentient-why-that-matters\/\">claimed to have sentience<\/a>\u00a0or a form of consciousness.\u00a0The technology has also had its share of embarassing missteps. Google&#8217;s Bard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08\/\">stumbled out of the gate<\/a>\u00a0this month by providing wrong answers to questions posed by users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3688934\/chatgpt-is-not-sentient-it-s-a-next-word-prediction-engine.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to generate textual answers that can be indistinguishable from human responses. The chatbot platform and its underlying large language model \u2014 GPT-3 \u2014\u00a0can be valuable tools to automate functions, help with creative ideas, and even suggest new computer code and fixes for broken apps.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}