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From how I understand it, ChatGPT doesn't have any knowledge. It's just a language model.

• thewataccount 4y ago
  > present static knowledge It's not that ChatGPT is knowledgable, it's that it's presenting knowledge. It's mathematically choosing an order of words to present knowledge we've encoded it with/trained it on. The choice of the words itself isn't really knowledge (depending on how you define knowledge). There is a related thought experiment that addresses this idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
• ninethirty 4y ago
  it summarizes the plots of movies or reinterprets them if you prompt it to. that should count as knowledge i think
• distcs 4y ago
  > From how I understand it, ChatGPT doesn't have any knowledge. How do you define "having any knowledge"? How is what ChatGPT does different from that definition?
• coldtea 4y ago
  A language model by definition encodes knowledge about a language... If you mean "it doesn't also have knowledge of the wolrd, facts etc", well, it has been trained with a huge corpus of all kinds of material, so it does. If you mean "it doesn't understand it, so it's not real knowledge", then that's getting into philosophy/semantics, and it could be argue that it does, or that what humans do is not very different...