About whether ChatGPT has no thought of its own and only predicts likely responses.
Has this happened?
Yes 53 (43%)Not sure 24 (19%)No 47 (38%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT has no thought of its own and only predicts likely responses.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
ChatGPT has no idea what they're talking about. It lacks it's own thought and heuristic patterns, and only gives you the most-likely response to your prompt
Funny thing is, same could be said about lots of people. Try listening to any political debate.
Which leads me to believe that the thing that's missing from AI is the same thing that we miss in those political debates: ability to explain and justify your own thought process.
As long as AI is a blackbox, we won't consider it to be a real intelligence.