ChatGPT might be causing a speculative stir in the startup market and among Twitter meme poets, but did you know it’s also an unknowable eldritch abomination? “There is a long-held pursuit of the unexplainable,” intones a BBC article, “[and] the mysteries of these systems are deep below the surface.” “ChatGPT doesn’t really resemble the Manhattan Project, obviously,” cedes a different author from the pages of The Atlantic, but “at least those people knew what they were building.” And if you think the voice of a reasoned specialist would clear things up, a New York Times podcast will dash that hope for you: “These folks don’t actually know what they are building. They cannot explain how it works. They do not understand what capabilities it will have.”
