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Originally Posted by andyh2000
Can either of you point out the bits that were nonsense please, for my edification?
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Take this from ChatGPT:
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The assertion that "we do know exactly how computers work" is also not entirely true. While we have a solid understanding of the underlying hardware and software mechanisms of computers, there are still many areas of computer science that are not fully understood, such as the theoretical limits of computation and the development of algorithms for certain types of problems.
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The "theoretical limits of computation" has to do with what computers might do in the distant future, not how they work now.
The "development of algorithms for certain types of problems" means nothing concrete and implies that ChatGPT has some deeper understanding than what we have been given, and we should trust it there.
As for the discussion of whether there is a "great range of AI systems," this was a rhetorical device on Quoth's part that didn't mean anything concrete (
#31 is relevant here). If I cared about that sentence, and Quoth and I were posting back and forth, I would have either asked for clarification, or, more likley, ignored the claim on grounds that it didn't advance Quoth's claims enough for me to have to refute it. ChatGPT doesn't know when to stop digging.