“What might Geoffrey Hinton say about algorithmic developments such as ChatGPT and MidJourney? What advantages and disadvantages might he observe?” That was the prompt. The answer is pretty damn spot on.

“What might Geoffrey Hinton say about algorithmic developments such as ChatGPT and MidJourney? What advantages and disadvantages might he observe?” That was the prompt. The answer is pretty damn spot on.
The reason: hallucinations.
When I demoed ChatGPT to my undergraduate engineering students on Friday, I asked for a question from the class. One is illustrated above: Seattle and Washington temperatures in 2010. Students quickly turned to Dr. Google to fact-check ChatGPT. Big oops, there, OpenAI.