文章大意:这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了自2022年11月发布以来,ChatGPT在网络上掀起了风暴,它要么可以极大地提高人类工人的工作效率,要么可以完全取代他们。
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It can take a little imagination to see how some innovations might change an economy. Not so with the latest AI tools. It is easy — from a writer’s perspective, uncomfortably so — 1 (think) of contexts in which something like ChatGPT, a clever chatbot which 2 (take) the web by storm since its release in November 2022, could either dramatically boost a human worker’s productivity or replace them outright. The ChatGPT in its name stands for “generative pre-trained transformer”, 3 is a particular kind of language model.
4 (feed) huge amounts of human-created text, ChatGPT looks for statistical regularities in this data, learns what words and phrases 5 (associate) with others and therefore predict what words should come next in any given sentence and 6 sentences fit together. The result is a machine that can persuasively mimic (模仿) human language.
This capacity 7 mimicry allows ChatGPT to write essays and poetry, think up jokes, formulate code, and answer questions whether to a child or an expert. Its performance is so astonishing 8 many over the past months have been both celebrating and panicking. “Essays are dead,” wrote the cognitive scientist Tim Kietzmann. Others claim that it will finish off Google as a search engine. And the program 9 thinks it may be able to replace humans in jobs from insurance agent to court reporter.
Nevertheless, there is an 10 (underlie) problem that faces any form of artificial intelligence. A computer manipulates (处理) symbols. Its program specifies a set of rules with which to transform one string of symbols into another, or to recognize statistical patterns. But it does not specify what those symbols or patterns mean. To a computer, meaning is irrelevant ChatGPT “knows” what appears meaningful to humans, but not what is meaningful to itself.