Much as I'm assuming the person you're responding to was joking, I've encountered a number of comments/commenters where I felt the same way I felt about GPT output.
The best way I can describe the feeling is that it reminds me of conversations and friendships I've had with schizophrenics, people in the process of having a psychotic breakdown, and people with alzheimers.
There's a feeling that what they're saying is not entirely non-sensical, a feeling of 'catching up' to what they're trying to say (akin to translating in a language one isn't too proficient in). But reflecting on the conversation, I find myself wondering how much I managed to understand what they were trying to convey, and how much it was just my brain trying to make sense of something that ultimately doesn't.
'Understanding' or 'communication' aside, I've often valued these kinds of conversations because they tickle the more free-associative side of my own thinking, and the results, however I/we got there, were useful to me.
As a result, I'm much more interested in how these developments in 'AI' might augment this creative process than I am in how they might convincingly appear human. Not that the latter isn't interesting too, though.
The best way I can describe the feeling is that it reminds me of conversations and friendships I've had with schizophrenics, people in the process of having a psychotic breakdown, and people with alzheimers.
There's a feeling that what they're saying is not entirely non-sensical, a feeling of 'catching up' to what they're trying to say (akin to translating in a language one isn't too proficient in). But reflecting on the conversation, I find myself wondering how much I managed to understand what they were trying to convey, and how much it was just my brain trying to make sense of something that ultimately doesn't.
'Understanding' or 'communication' aside, I've often valued these kinds of conversations because they tickle the more free-associative side of my own thinking, and the results, however I/we got there, were useful to me.
As a result, I'm much more interested in how these developments in 'AI' might augment this creative process than I am in how they might convincingly appear human. Not that the latter isn't interesting too, though.