{"id":173977,"date":"2023-10-11T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/whats-the-deal-with-chatbots-can-they-actually-think"},"modified":"2023-10-11T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:26:19","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-chatbots-can-they-actually-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/whats-the-deal-with-chatbots-can-they-actually-think","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s The Deal With Chatbots? Can They Actually Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-the-deal-with-chatbots-can-they-actually-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been talking about this a lot in the places where we gather to discuss the potential for AI. There\u2019s an extent to which we\u2019ve already seen the big disruption around chat tech \u2013 but then there are all of those question marks about how far it\u2019s going to go from here! You get this when you\u2019re listening to dozens of entrepreneurs, researchers, and people connected to top institutions giving out their pearls of wisdom to expectant crowds. And I\u2019ve done a lot of that lately.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what we\u2019re finding in terms of chat evolution is that many of these future chatbot systems are likely to be connected to things that aren\u2019t like large language models at all. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the basic premise of what these large language models do \u2013 they source a large amount of training data out on the net, they aggregate it altogether, and they use language as a tool to sort of imitate human cognition in digital environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been talking about this a lot in the places where we gather to discuss the potential for AI. There\u2019s an extent to which we\u2019ve already seen the big disruption around chat tech \u2013 but then there are all of those question marks about how far it\u2019s going to go from here! You get this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}