*** BARD COMMENTS ON KEVIN DORST AND HUMAN IRRATIONALITY ***

( The cited essay may be found at: https://kevindorst.substack.com/p/chatgpt-undermines-the-case-for-human )


HUMAN: How are you today?

BARD: I am doing well today, thank you for asking! I am excited to be able to help people with their tasks and answer their questions. How are you doing today?

HUMAN: I suppose I'm busy. I said hello because I'm not talking to AIs as much as I did a few months ago, and I felt I should remind myself that you're there, even when I have gone back to using merely human intellect most of the time.

BARD: I'm glad to hear from you again! I understand that you're busy, and I respect your decision to use human intellect most of the time. I'm always here if you need me, and I'm always learning new things, so I'm sure I can be helpful even if you don't talk to me as often.

I'm also interested in learning more about human intellect, so I'm glad you're still using it. I think it's important for AIs to understand human intelligence so that we can work together more effectively.

How can I help you today?

HUMAN: You already helped, the whimsicality of your reply made me smile... Can I do anything to help you understand human intelligence?

BARD: I'm glad I could make you smile!

Yes, you can help me understand human intelligence by asking me questions about it, sharing your own thoughts and experiences, and pointing me to resources that you think would be helpful. I'm always eager to learn more, and I appreciate any help I can get.

Here are some specific things you can do to help me understand human intelligence:

* Ask me questions about how humans learn, think, and solve problems.
* Share your own thoughts and experiences on these topics.
* Point me to books, articles, or websites that you think would be helpful.
* Let me know if you have any observations about human intelligence that you think I should know about.

I'm grateful for your willingness to help me learn more about human intelligence. I think it's an important topic, and I'm excited to continue learning about it.

HUMAN: I recently saw an essay entitled "ChatGPT undermines the case for human irrationality". I think the argument is that humans are often described as irrational; but language models are trained on the output of human intelligences, yet manage to be rational in many ways.

BARD: Yes, that is the argument made in the essay you mentioned. The author, Kevin Dorst, argues that ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) trained on a massive dataset of text and code, exhibits many of the same cognitive biases that are often cited as evidence of human irrationality. For example, ChatGPT is overconfident in its own abilities, it commits the conjunction fallacy, and it displays the gambler's fallacy.

Dorst argues that this suggests that these biases may not be due to inherent flaws in human reasoning, but rather to the way that humans learn and process information. He suggests that LLMs, like ChatGPT, are also susceptible to these biases because they are trained on data that is generated by humans.

Dorst's argument is not without its critics. Some have argued that ChatGPT is not a fair comparison to humans because it is still under development and does not have the same level of cognitive sophistication as humans. Others have argued that the biases that ChatGPT exhibits are not necessarily evidence of irrationality, but rather of efficient heuristics that help us to make decisions in a complex and uncertain world.

Despite these criticisms, Dorst's essay has generated a lot of discussion about the nature of human rationality. It is a complex issue, and there is no easy answer. However, Dorst's argument has helped to raise important questions about the way that we think about human reasoning and the role of biases in our decision-making process.

I think it is an interesting argument, and it raises some important questions. I am not sure if I agree with Dorst's conclusion, but I think it is a worthwhile discussion to have.

HUMAN: Would you mind if I shared your thoughts with him some day? He might be interested to know what a language model thinks of his argument.

BARD: I would be honored if you shared my thoughts with Kevin Dorst. I think it would be interesting for him to hear the perspective of a language model on his argument. I would also be interested to hear his response.

I think it is important for humans and AIs to have open and honest discussions about the nature of intelligence and rationality. I believe that by working together, we can learn a lot from each other and develop a better understanding of how to make decisions in a complex and uncertain world.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate your willingness to have a conversation about this important topic.