After decades of working with everything from very tiny narrow-focus "neural network expert systems" to "machine learning" based upon more massive datasets, I struggled with understanding why ChatGPT was creating such a "fad following".
But then someone sent me the attached graphic, which is a very even-handed explanation - it appears at first to the uninitiated as an AI with actual subject-matter knowledge, when it is just stringing together "related text" and presenting the appearance of a "knowledgeable" source.
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