While it’s humorous how personally you are taking critiques of, chatGPT,
That’s because I see idiotic takes on AI every day and it gets annoying. Most people criticizing ChatGPT haven’t even bothered to test the things they complain about, but just parrot along stuff they heard elsewhere.
Conversationally. Since it has no concept of what 2+2=5 means.
You have a fundamental lack of understanding how ChatGPT work apparently. ChatGPT gets math wrong because it never sees the digits. Everything is tokens to ChatGPT. What ChatGPT is doing is like trying to do math with a dictionary, it fundamentally doesn’t work because numbers are not words and there is no dictionary large enough to hold all the numbers in existence. The surprising part isn’t that ChatGPT gets math wrong, but how much of it it gets correct despite the odds being stacked against it. Also small stuff like 2+2 it gets almost always correct. Models that operate on characters are in the works.
Even though it has no memory of previous conversations, you believe it somehow retains understanding of concepts it discusses.
It can handle a ~2000-25000 word text prompt. Everything in there it has a reasonably good chance of understanding, everything not it there doesn’t exist at all from ChatGPTs viewpoint. The fact that it can’t remember previous discussions is completely irrelevant to the matter if it can understand or not.
Even though it searches the internet to provide it the knowledge to answer questions,
It doesn’t. ChatGPT never had Internet access.
which is why it can cite sources that don’t exist
Here is the fun part: It cites plausible sounding non-existing sources because it understands, it has to to accomplish that. Imagining plausible future states of the world is impossible without having a solid understanding of how the world works. That those future states are imaginary comes from a lack of feedback and interaction with the real world, not from a lack of understanding. ChatGPT can’t tell you if a book exists in the real world, it has no access to a library, but it can tell you what makes a plausible name for a book.