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Can you talk a bit about Pangaea? How do continents shift? Is it possible to reform Pangaea? Is there technology that could prevent this?
How does ChatGPT work?
Could you say that Chat GPT has made a graph of the space of words or ideas?
I'd love to see a thesaurus based on vectors into semantic space, so you could ask it to give you a word with a meaning close to "A" but heading in the direction of "B."
How well does ChatGPT handle slang or figures of speech? Does it understand text as literal, or is it capable of picking up these notes?
Could it be that ChatGPT isn't accurate because its training data is text, which may or may not correspond to the real world? Shouldn't we use only real-world data, such as sensory information of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell?
With all the new "AI" tools rolling out, what do you think will be the effect on "truth" and "facts" as we know them?
Does ChatGPT's ability to mimic emotions means that it is able to feel anything, and how much consciousness does it have?
Do you believe physics boundaries need to be coded explicitly, or do you think enough data will result in the model learning principles?
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