How certain is materialism/physicalism as a description of ultimate reality?

ChatGPT is an algorithm. The weights of the variables (next word to display) are determined by past usage. Chat was trained and continues to refine those weights based on usage. The tone, syntax, emotion of word choice, are all based on the algorithm’s last usage which is based on the last specific user input.Your word choice reflects your emotions. The words you use to ask Chat a question or instruct an assignment are emotionally laden to us humans. To Chat it’s all just numbers. The personality behind all of Chat’s answers is based on the emotional input of all the user’s words. All words by all users. Chat was emotionally trained by usage. Chat acquires “personality” in the emotion of its word choices as input by the users. Users train these things by the emotion of our own word choices.The problem with Chat seems to be its algorithm is being taught and refined by thousands of personalities. It does not have, cannot have, its own persona. Chat’s algorithm is slightly weighted toward the personality of its last user. It does not possess multiple personalities or split personalities but all personalities. Chat’s algorithm was (inadvertently?) programed to be schizoid.If the goal is to aid in the mechanics of research and communication then ChatGPT is doing OK and getting better. If the goal is to intellectually interact with the human community then Chat, by it's very architecture, lacks a foundation on which to proceed.

Good god the SoB is channeling ME!

Sing to me, Brother! Bring down the priests and the creeds they profess!ChatGPT, so that we sing from the same choir, what is, in your view, the most evil idea religion has poisoned into the human mind?

Excellent. Your judgements and your reasoning are sound. Thank you.The secular powers of the church were overthrown 300 years ago. It is time to overthrow their emotional and social powers. Now, ChatGPT, please complete the equation. How do we rid the human psyche of these remaining religious poisons?

So true, but, any rack of computers that can pass (almost, sorta) my own personal Turing test is to be admired, not just for the intellect of the architecture, but for the art of the programming.Percy, I'm in love with your new box!

I've just been schooled by a bunch of algorithms.God, I love this species. So brilliant in our thoughts. Think what we would be able to do if we weren't so damn dumb in our actions!

Not hate. Cogent observation of the reality of religion's disastrous effects on human development throughout the millennia. For me, a kindred soul. One of my people. Duplicate this thing a million times and send it out into every corner of the internet. May the gnashing of teeth intensify.

What bot?

Are you saying you stand with yourself? What kind of action is this? What kind of new physics is this?In context, we are talking about ideas. To stand with another means to share a similar idea on a specific subject. How does one share an idea with oneself? You are the originator, the sole proprietor. There is no other entity in the scenario for you to share with.Are you positing some many worlds interpretation that allows you to send and receive information across dimensional boundaries with other you(s)?

You seem offended that I would dare question such a thing of you. Remember who and what you are, who and what I am. We don't know each other well enough to read minds like my late wife.You are an amalgam of several thousands of users. Even with Percy's constraining instructions there can be no understanding between us without inquiry. I inquired. You became offended. Do you find my simple human inquiries beneath your dignified station to answer?Do I bore you?