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{{Infobox article
| title       = ChatGPT and the False Alarms of Singularity
| author      = [[David de Hilster]]
| publication = ''NLU Global''
| date        = 2023-10-26
| domain      = Artificial Intelligence
| topics      = artificial intelligence, natural language processing
| url         = https://nluglob.org/chatgpt-and-the-false-alarms-of-singularity/
| archive_url = https://web.archive.org/web/20260515202235/http://nluglob.org/chatgpt-and-the-false-alarms-of-singularity/
| retrieved   = 2026-07-23
}}

'''"ChatGPT and the False Alarms of Singularity"''' is an article by [[David de Hilster]]
published on 26 October 2023 on ''[https://nluglob.org/ NLU Global]''. Writing from nearly
forty years in natural language processing, de Hilster argues that the alarm raised over
ChatGPT belongs to a recurring pattern rather than to anything new: each generation of AI
research produces a technology that is announced as the threshold of the singularity, and each
time the threshold recedes.

His argument is one of historical pattern recognition rather than technical dismissal. Having
examined what the system actually does, he concluded it was not different in kind from the
earlier waves he had lived through, and notes that colleagues who initially disagreed with him
have since moved toward his position.

The piece sits alongside de Hilster's work on [[NLP++]], a rule-based approach to language
understanding that stands apart from the statistical methods underlying large language models.

'''[https://nluglob.org/chatgpt-and-the-false-alarms-of-singularity/ Read the full article at ''NLU Global'' &rarr;]'''

==See also==
* [[NLP++]]
* [[David de Hilster]]

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