Quote of the Day

Do enough talking to the bot about subjects you know, and curiosity soon deepens to unease. That feeling of talking with someone whose confidence far exceeds their competence grows until ChatGPT's true nature shines out. It's a Dunning-Kruger effect knowledge simulator par excellence. It doesn't know what it's talking about, and it doesn't care because we haven't learned how to do that bit yet.

—Rupert Goodwins at The Register

Most of the work in artificial intelligence seems to be actually an attempt to create artificial stupidity, doesn't it?

Despite the best effort of the researchers, it appears that you can still get ChatGPT to tell you how to enrich uranium, make meth, and spout bigotry.