I get it’s part of the joke, but just so people are aware (since this seems to be lost on a lot of people): there is no process, because it’s not actually thinking. It’s merely generating text that resembles natural language, with no semantic understanding. It doesn’t know what a location is, nor how to figure out where the closest McDonalds is.
Next question: What process did you use to know to tell me where to find McDonalds?
I get it’s part of the joke, but just so people are aware (since this seems to be lost on a lot of people): there is no process, because it’s not actually thinking. It’s merely generating text that resembles natural language, with no semantic understanding. It doesn’t know what a location is, nor how to figure out where the closest McDonalds is.
AI: i can’t talk about that right now.
I wonder if they’re using 2 AI systems, one for location and the other for information. That would work for this scenario.
Merl: I don’t know