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Oops! We Automated Bullshit.

Department of Computer Science and Technology

“MIT Professor of AI Rodney Brooks summarises the working principle of ChatGPT as ‘it just makes up stuff that sounds good’. This is mathematically accurate, where ‘sounds good’ is an algorithm to imitate text found on the internet, while ‘makes up’ is the basic randomness of relying on predictive text rather than logic or facts.”

“Oops! We Automated Bullshit.” by Alan Blackwell:

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit