How can ChatGPT be instrumental to the progress of science?

Lorraine Ford
Remenber my mentioning, n a previous post, that I do not know of the correct terminology for the computer processing that gives output that seems like thought but is not. If we reserve that word 'thinking' for what biological organisms do, when they process information. I suggested machine-thinking could be alternative terminology, that like the term machine-learning 'aknowleges both the difference of it from the organic process and aknowleges the appaent similarirty.
'Conclusion' is a term that could mean something like a judgement from reasoning . It also can mean the end of a process. That second meaning seems fitting for the output of a LLM -a wolf. (Generated as sound ot rext understood by humans. ) End of process.

Georgina Woodward
I think terminology by itself is pretty pointless, unless people are very clear about symbols: the written and spoken and binary digit symbols, invented by human beings, used as a type of tool by human beings, and which only have meaning to human beings.

Unfortunately there are an awful lot of people, including philosophers, who make the mistake of thinking that symbols have objective meaning, when in fact symbols only have subjective meaning to particular human beings (although no doubt some non-human animals can be trained to associate some personal-to-themselves meaning in connection with visual or sound symbols).

I think it is a somewhat difficult issue, because when one looks at words (e.g. on a screen or paper), it is difficult to separate out the physical symbols (on the screen or paper) from the experience of knowing the meaning of the symbol, which has come from the eyes and brain processing light waves, and from learning the meaning of the symbols at school.

Lorraine Ford
This article has interesting insight into the importance of the words we use to descibe something that occurs frequently and problematically with LLM s

https://undark.org/2023/04/06/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/

William Orem
More about the occurance and prevalence /problems to AI users of 'hallucination
https://techstrong.ai/generative-ai/the-ongoing-challenges-of-ai-hallucinations/

Lorraine Ford

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Georgina Woodward
Watching rubbish videos that deny that anthropogenic climate change is happening, or that claim that Trump won some USA election, is a far more immediate threat to truth and human rights than AI. But plenty of people quite happily watch rubbish videos all the time.

Lorraine Ford
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Lorraine Ford
I am not part of a campaign of denial of the hypothesis ofanthopogenic climate change. That's your presumption.I have not actively denied it and furthermore wrote supporting the hypothesis that some warming may be due to human activity. I linked various resources, given as food for thought. I have said 'interesting' but have not written , as far as I remember , that it shows anthropogenic climate change is not happening. Which would be active denial.