When it comes to creative thinking, it’s clear that AI systems mean business | John Naughton

The chatbot GPT-4 has produced more viable commercial ideas more efficiently and more cheaply than US university students

In all the frenzied discourse about large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 there is one point on which everyone seems to agree: these models are essentially stochastic parrots – namely, machines that are good at generating convincing sentences, but do not actually understand the meaning of the language they are processing. They have somehow “read” (that is, ingested) everything ever published …

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