It has no semantic depth. The sentences and the paragraphs are a statistically viable derivation of existing human text, but once you try to grasp the whole thing with its temporal and spatial dimensions, you are left with a blurry mess that rots your brain. It's a polished, inoffensive and shallow interpretation as written by an opinionated reputation-seeking user of Quora, circa 2019. Assertive, bold, without typos, clean-cut and bulleted, but without an interesting semantic core.
Yeah, I hated all those Quora users that would just spew out semantically meaningless slop like increasing an important bound for the Riemann hypothesis.
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/564f962e60643842f5fcb4a17c9dbc...
It's all so tiring.
Everyone decides what to think on this issue, then finds out facts to support their idea.
As it stands they are massively useful tools, but for generating usable products they require either A) a lot of expert steering or B) a well defined easily verifiable target and a large compute budget. Most people are using them in mode A with good effect, the progress on math has been done in mode B, which is very promising.
Just a year and a half ago their maximal use was rephrase, summarize, and homework-level tasks.
Five years from now? There be dragons.
"But are they generally intelligent?" What a meaningless question!
Not meaningless because part of the discussion is the issue of anthropomorphizing this tech. When we use language like “intelligent” it carries hints of personhood. People begin sadly treating these things as persons.
We can reap the benefits while clearly telling the consumer this is just a language algorithm.