> But my argument is that humans are also, at some level, sufficiently advanced stochastic parrots. But humans have a feedback loop called "consciousness" that

> But my argument is that humans are also, at some level, sufficiently advanced stochastic parrots. But humans have a feedback loop called "consciousness" that sits above the stochastic parrot level, can reason about it, and can separate the wheat from the chaff. AI still has to reach this level. ChatGPT cannot judge if its answers are right or wrong. It just claims things confidently, and as long as it is parroting correctly, it is right, and that's why humans get fooled into thinking that maybe they can trust it. (That's also why humans get fooled by human bullshitters who claim things confidently). So if you don't use ChatGPT as what it is, a lookup-tool trained on the content of the internet, which can't even tell you where it got the information from, and the onus is on you to verify if the information is correct or not, and if instead try to use it as some kind of expert you can trust (which I have seen quite a few people do), then you are doing it wrong.