Roy Wiggins

@Odiseo79@mas.to @DrewKadel@social.coop (that's not true for most topics but I assume that OpenAI has fairly carefully cultivated what information it's seen about ChatGPT, if only for PR purposes. If they hadn't done that, you'd be getting responses that were its best guess based on its corpus of material, which could include information about how it works, it doesn't know more about how it works than how Bing Chat works or how a motorcycle works; if it's read the operating manual then it can tell you a bit, but it's not *actually *introspecting any more than humans can tell you how their brains work vs just repeating what they read in a neurology textbook)

@Odiseo79@mas.to @DrewKadel@social.coop that is, it's not evidence either way. OpenAI could have chosen to train it to insist that it is conscious instead and it would have done so. So what you're really getting when you ask it about itself is mostly what *OpenAI* wants you to hear

@Odiseo79@mas.to @DrewKadel@social.coop the meta thing is that ChatGPT doesn't really know how it works, it's been instructed to say stuff like that, and mostly it does, but it's still just a simulacrum- it's not *really* introspecting when you ask it whether it's intelligent or conscious, OpenAI just trained it to say "no."

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @chrisnicolson@mastodon.scot @attacus@aus.social I was so mad about that that I bodged together a script with get_iplayer to liberate the ones I listen to- downloads the episodes and spits out an RSS feed.