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    1 year ago

    GPT is not equipped to care about whether the things it says are true. It does not have the ability to form hypotheses and test them against the real world. All it can do is read online books and Wikipedia faster than you can, and try to predict what text another writer would have written in answer to your question.

    If you want to know how to raise chickens, it can give you a summary of texts on the subject. However, it cannot convey to you an intuitive understanding of how your chickens are doing. It cannot evaluate for you whether your chicken coop is adequate to keep your local foxes or cats from attacking your hens.

    Moreover, it cannot convey to you all the tacit knowledge that a person with a dozen years of experience raising chickens will have. Tacit knowledge, by definition, is not written down; and so it is not accessible to a text transformer.

    And even more so, it cannot convey the wisdom or judgment that tells you when you need help.