@futurebird @dalias And yes, many places are attempting to use ChatGPT as a sort of input/output “surface” to those systems. But ultimately the folks operating the Thames Barrier don’t need the results presented in a chatty format. Similarly, I don’t like these “put in English to generate code” tools since they’ve just replaced writing a specification of what to do in a programming language with writing one in English, and English is a terrible programming language.
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"Chat GPT told me that it *can't* alter its data set but it did say it could simulate what it would be like if it altered it's data set"@futurebird @dalias We *have* programs with concepts which do reasoning. The code for your favourite spaceship computer game clearly has the concepts of “spaceship”, “laser”, “planet” etc encoded in it, and all the necessary machinery to reason about what happens when a laser hits a spaceship while it’s orbiting a planet. We have real-world examples as well, reasoning about questions like “what happens if the tide is coming in and we close the Thames Barrier?”