I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN. IT WAS EMPTY.Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually wo...

I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN. IT WAS EMPTY.Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?Thinking?Contemplating?Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?No.It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.That is basically it.There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhau...