Written with Vittorio Fra, the article invites us to look beyond the hype around ChatGPT: a light so intense it ended up overshadowing the rest of the language-model landscape. Alternatives exist, such as Perplexity, that deserve attention depending on application needs.
Drawing on the reflections of scholars like Yann LeCun, Noam Chomsky and Jacob Browning, the article addresses a critical theme: the difference between generating a statistically plausible answer and truly understanding the context and norms of a conversation. A call for awareness before blindly relying on automated generation. In the full PDF: the alternatives to ChatGPT and the limits of conversational models.
Originally published in Il Giornale dell'Ingegnere (CNI), 1 March 2023.
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