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"I've never seen anyone say ChatGPT feels like magic" This is a curious line - I have, and I personally have that reaction when I use it. It might even be the

• jt2190 4y ago
  > This is a curious line… Literally in the next sentence the author also remarks that he finds it odd: > “That makes me curious.” He finds it curious because he also finds the technology is magical. Eventually he concludes: > “Let's say you have a Large Language Model AI, trained on all the text in the world. We understand the mechanisms (engineering) but the outcomes are surprising and emergent (magic). Its job is to repeatedly predict the next word that would come if a person wrote it – a form of negative latency, or non-causality. From this, for reasons we don't really understand, it can say an impressive variety of unexpectedly meaningful things.” > “When you have all the text in the world memorized, that means you have access to all the insights that have ever been written. You need only recognize them, and have a good idea of what the reader knows already, and you can produce insights – things the reader has never heard before – on demand. You can get an A+ from my English teacher. Can our AI do that? I don't know. Certainly sometimes, maybe not reliably yet. Any time it does, it will feel like magic.”
• MH15 4y ago
  While I personally don't think ChatGPT feels magical, I know many people who feel this way. It's a really common opinion, especially among non-programmers.
• amadeuspagel 4y ago
  I guess it doesn't feel like magic because it feels human?