> It never once considered backing up and verifying that there wasn’t some misunderstanding. Of course not; ChatGPT doesn't "consider". It doesn't think, it do

> It never once considered backing up and verifying that there wasn’t some misunderstanding. Of course not; ChatGPT doesn't "consider". It doesn't think, it doesn't know. It can't identify that there was a misunderstanding of its own volition. All ChatGPT does is use a (very sophisticated!) statistical analysis to generate text that conforms to an expectation of what a human response to a similar prompt might look like. It has been trained well in so far as it is able to produce prompts that seem like a human may have written them, but it doesn't reveal cognitive processes like "reconsidering" because it doesn't have any.