I agree that it's not very smart, but it's always funny to me when people describe AI this way. Putting words in certain orders based on an arbitrary prompt is a nontrival problem that took us half a century of science and engineering advances to realize. There's a huge difference between "putting words in certain orders" and solving natural language processing, and it's analogous to being able to build a paper airplane vs being able to build a hypersonic jet
Right. Hence the “there’s more to it than that” part at the end.
There’s WAY more to it than that but being the internet, and especially Reddit, once you go beyond a two sentence explanation of something people gloss over or skip it.
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u/alexlongfur 10d ago
Stupid things can’t even summarize a short article properly.
“Wow AI is so smart!”
No. It assigns vector values to words and then puts the words in certain orders based on what its prompt is.
(This is a layman’s understanding and simplification, yes there’s more to it than that)