More like a billion small snippets of tape and a pattern matching machine that chooses which order to mix them in. But really the memory is not “exact” but able to morph continuously based on the input (differentiable).
The real way chatbots are a scam though is that they are able to get enough empathy from people that many people assume the glass is half full when it is really half empty. If it was an ordinary computer program that could sort a list of numbers 95% correctly people would not be impressed but ChatGPT will apologize for the mistake and people think it is sincere so some people are impressed.
A computer as we know it is a binary logic playback machine.
A human creates logic (aka, a "program") and the computer "executes" it --- i.e. plays it back at high speed as many times as desired with varying inputs as needed.
This is definitely a useful tool but fears and expectations that it will take on a life or an agenda of it's own is about as unscientific and illogical as expecting a hammer to start driving it's own nails.
"Big tech" is playing along with this foolery because they would like nothing better than to legally restrict technology to themselves. They would love it if government can be hoodwinked into effectively "patenting" AI so only they could use it.
In other words, any real danger here is from people and government --- the same as it has always been.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 12.1 ms ] threadThe real way chatbots are a scam though is that they are able to get enough empathy from people that many people assume the glass is half full when it is really half empty. If it was an ordinary computer program that could sort a list of numbers 95% correctly people would not be impressed but ChatGPT will apologize for the mistake and people think it is sincere so some people are impressed.
A human creates logic (aka, a "program") and the computer "executes" it --- i.e. plays it back at high speed as many times as desired with varying inputs as needed.
This is definitely a useful tool but fears and expectations that it will take on a life or an agenda of it's own is about as unscientific and illogical as expecting a hammer to start driving it's own nails.
"Big tech" is playing along with this foolery because they would like nothing better than to legally restrict technology to themselves. They would love it if government can be hoodwinked into effectively "patenting" AI so only they could use it.
In other words, any real danger here is from people and government --- the same as it has always been.