Why ChatGPT is Dumb and Fooled by Easy Patterns

 

“Dumb” is a word you don’t want to hear a writer say, especially when talking about a state-of-the-art AI like ChatGPT. But I feel at home with mean sharp little words like Punk, Cheap, and Dumb; they’re much easier to pin down than Good, Happiness, or Love.

ChatGPT, like Nirvana’s best song, is dumb.

It’s a parlor trick, a party game, one of those things you show off at a dinner party to impress people with your intelligence.

As was the worry with “deepfake technology,” once revealed to the world, people can easily see through it and find the limits.

Here is ChatGPT’s Achilles’ heel, so to speak: