Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
by layer8 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:23PM
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It tried to convince me that one event can happen before another event even if the time of the event is after the time of the other event. It had a notion that events happen in some order, and that time is ordered, and that events are associated with times, but not that the two orders need to be consistent. And I wasn’t able to convince it otherwise.
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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
by noitpmeder on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:11AM
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The way you describe your interaction is fundamentally flawed.
At no point was it trying to convince you of something.
At no point does it have any clue that "events occur in some order". Or that "time is ordered"...
At no point will you EVER be able to "convince it otherwise".
This is a language model. All it knows is that "in my training set, something said something akin to the two English words: 'ordered events'". It has no model of facts, deduction, or logic, as long as its results are a reasonable approximation of the English language as influenced by your prompt.
Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
by layer8 on Monday December 26, 2022 @12:32PM
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Yes, that‘s the conclusion I drew after a number of interactions. “It tried to convince me” was shorthand for that it persistently argued for that. I don’t attribute any actual agency to ChatGPT, of course.
The lack of self-reflection, of logical reasoning ability and associated memory is what makes ChatGPT useless for the use cases I’d actually find interesting.