I asked ChatGPT for an analysis of the upcoming season

[ArmchairQB]

Chat GPT answers questions like this by sampling available documents all over the web, then synthesizing what it found into blurbs that seem to fit your question. The key point is that it can be pulling from several years back, not just recently written material. That is how you get Oklahoma still out-of-conference and Kentucky a crucial SEC East matchup. Also, Vandy as a "trap game" is a meme that has been around for decades.

The program is just parroting. It isn't really providing analysis, just synthesis of what came before.

In that sense, it is EXACTLY like taking 20 of your football-watching buddies, asking them to describe an average Vols-Bama or Vols-Kentucky game, and then summarizing what all 20 of them said.

In other words, it has zero ability to look ahead, to anticipate future events. It has no predictive value.

Other than that, it's awesome.

Go Vols!

This, and that's why I can't take any of that stuff seriously just yet. We call it intelligence but that's being really, really generous. It's on pretty even footing with what passes for journalism any more though... and those journalists are probably where it's getting its copy to cough up answers in the first place.

Chatbot indexes a whoooooole bunch of content. Large language model tells it how to string together somewhat useful and arguably interesting sentences about the content. It doesn't really know anything, in the sense that it's aware of a team or a stadium or a schedule being a thing. It just stores an absurd amount of data and follows some increasingly sophisticated rules telling it how to regurgitate the data when asked about it.

 

[OrangeSquid]

Ouija Board is probably just as accurate. AI predicted last week's Marion Co. vs East Ridge HS football game as a hard fought back and forth endeavor with East Ridge hanging on for the win.
LOL! Marion Co wins 40-0

 

[amstelman]

Kentucky, an SEC East matchup. AIn't all that intelligent or aware.