Chat-GPT as Clever Hans Once Again

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Something that you can find on the internet and stitch together from three screenshots of a web post at one URL <https://www.anandtech.com/show/21116/apple-announces-m3-soc-family-m3-m3-pro-and-m3-max-make-their-marks>:

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is beyond the powers of ChatGPT4 with its web-search module turned on:

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Another of a huge number of cases reinforcing my belief that ChatGPT is best viewed as language interface to noisy web search, and a useful tool to those who understand that. Attributing more to it is to fall victim to the “Clever Hans” delusion.

And, indeed, it does well on this:

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But it is not because it has any self-awareness or intelligence beyond being a stochastic parrot, does it?

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