CHATGPT, FOR ALL ITS AMUSING POETIC OUTPUT, riddle-solving prowess, and on-demand composition, is essentially doing one thing: spitting out what it considers the next most likely word in a sequence.
“Generative AI systems are quite good at mimicking the patterns of human language,” said Sarah Myers West, the managing director of the AI Now Institute and a former advisor on AI to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. But, she added, “they lack any of the context or depth of human understanding and often are trained on static data sets that aren’t up to date with events
