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Here's it's reply to me: Ian Calvert Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old Sure thing! GPS stands for Global Po
by IanCal 4y ago
Here's it's reply to me:
Ian Calvert
Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old
Sure thing! GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It's a way to find out where you are on Earth.
GPS works by using satellites that are way up in space. There are lots of these satellites orbiting around Earth, and they are always sending out signals. Your GPS receiver is a special device that can pick up these signals from the satellites.
The GPS receiver knows how far away it is from each satellite because of the time it takes for the signal to reach it. By figuring out how far away it is from a few different satellites, the GPS receiver can figure out exactly where it is on Earth.
So, if you have a GPS receiver in your car, phone, or on a special device like a watch, it can use the signals from the satellites to tell you exactly where you are and how to get to where you want to go. Does that make sense?
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I was also able to ask it to make it simpler and simpler and it did so pretty well.
- burnished 4y agoInteresting, the one you got id basically correct.
- jfk13 4y agoAnd comparing these two results for the same question serves to illustrate how ChatGPT does not in any meaningful sense _understand_ what it is "talking" about. It basically just strings together relevant-seeming words in a plausible way. The result may be useful, or it may be nonsense. You'd better know enough (and be alert enough) to tell the difference...
- gl-prod 4y agoAnd because of how it responds to them, people often forget that ChatGPT is just a language model, not an all-knowing AI.