meanwhile, an actual leading cognitive scientist, @garymarcus, has some actual thoughts re #ChatGPT: "we now have the world’s most used chatbot, governed by training data that nobody knows about, obeying an algorithm that is only hinted at, glorified by the media, & yet with ethical guardrails that only sorta kinda work & that are driven more by text similarity than any true moral calculus. &, bonus, there is little if any govt regulation in place to do much about this" https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/inside-the-heart-of-chatgpts-darkness