Is the Hype Surrounding ChatGPT Justified or Has it Gone Too Far?

Is the Hype Surrounding ChatGPT Justified or Has it Gone Too Far?

Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, recently stated that ChatGPT is not particularly innovative or revolutionary. Princeton Computer Science professor, Arvind Narayanan, went as far as to label ChatGPT as a “bulls**t generator.” In an interview with The Markup, Narayanan explained that ChatGPT is trained to produce plausible text, but not necessarily true statements. Although it can sometimes produce true statements, this is not its primary goal.