GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about

Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by IanAWP on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:03PM (#24247984)

GPT is both general purpose and stateless. Lacking another mechanism, it's the requirement of the prompt to request a particular genre of response if that's what you want.

There can be no such thing as a bad prompt from gpt3's perspective. A bad prompt is one where the user has a specific purpose which is not expressed. It's bad because you know beforehand that gpt3 can not align with it.

Someone pours grape juice into a bottle and becomes worried that is not safe to drink. GPT3 correctly grasps that there is a hidden context to this weird prompt, however when given no other information it guesses that this hidden context is something known only to the hypothetical character in the prompt. I would probably do this too.

When you give it the correct context (this weird prompt is a logic test) then it gives you the answer you expected.

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Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by mannykannot on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:58PM (#24248638)

> GPT3 correctly grasps that there is a hidden context to this weird prompt.

That is interesting. How does it indicate its understanding that there is a hidden context?

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