ChatGPT & You: Language Generation’s Uncanny Valley

Taking a look how our most Advanced AI Language Model to-date can shape our perception of NLG technology

As of writing this, it’s hard to go surfing anywhere online and not see articles about ChatGPT. 🏄

What has interested me the most in this current news cycle about ChatGPT is:

ChatGPT, and the discussion around the model’s capacity to have an “intelligent” conversation, leads to some interesting questions about our ability to evaluate non-human intelligence, and what that could even look like.

Through this article (and perhaps a few more) I’d like to argue:

1. ChatGPT represents our first step into the uncomfortable world of “Language Generation’s Uncanny Valley,” and the cautions that come with that achievement
2. ChatGPT is an amazing artificial intelligence cannot be considered “as intelligent as a human” because “intelligence” is a poorly-defined, slippery word
3. ChatGPT is an amazing artificial intelligence that lacks several key conceptual component required for widespread, robust AIs

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Disclaimer/Spoiler: I do not think ChatGPT is conscious, the beginning of the AI singularity, or hyper-intelligent in any sense…