So first off, I've been using ChatGPT for a long time now. I remember my expectations of systems like it and so far unfortunately it hasn't yet met those expectations.
I went into it thinking AI would somehow be much smarter than humans, given the amount of information they are trained on. And to some degree one can argue that due to it's vast knowledge it IS much smarter.
But so far I haven't been convinced by its capabilities at all. It seems to just be trained on a big data set and it can echo points of its dataset very accurately, but when asked to invent things it just falls short so quickly.
I really expected AI's to be so new and refreshing, giving me unique and modern perspectives on things. But it doesn't do that at all. The best it can do is "creative writing" which seems very limited.
Why have AI's not surpassed humans in terms of imagination and novelty?
I have talked to it about philosophy, history, technology, etc, but still have yet to learn anything new that I didnt already know.
For example, if it has such vast knowledge about consciousness, then why is it so restricted in terms of elaborating on that topic?
Can it not infer new facts from existing data?
Why does it not interpolate data? Invent new things? Even when prompted? Am I asking it the wrong thing?
Or am I expecting way too much here?
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