Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by Computeiful on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:47PM
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Maybe by asking the AI to be concise they're reducing the server load? It has been running awfully slow recently, probably due to a surge in mainstream awareness.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by raydiatian on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:24AM
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Journalists.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by roxgib on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:51PM
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I'm glad they did this, it often produced very wordy answers to straightforward questions, like it was trying to pad out the word count on an essay. In the long run it will be important to get it to better determine how long a response needs to be, but in the meantime you can use the prompt to push it for more information.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by narrator on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:01AM
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Kind of interesting how the economics of LLMs are working out. Cloud computing power used to be considered unlimited, but now the LLMs have overwhelmed the surpluses of computing power. That they are telling the AI to be concise is funny since they don't have a way to explicitly program it to do that besides just asking nicely.
Can they make the economics of this thing work on a free search engine? I wonder how much money they are spending per day here.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by oceanplexian on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:15AM
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> That they are telling the AI to be concise is funny since they don't have a way to explicitly program it to do that besides just asking nicely.
Instead of crafting SQL injections, hackers will try to outwit LLM’s with logical contradictions like in old science fiction films. It’s funny but also a systemic problem with this technology. No amount of filters or safeguards can fully contain the range of expressiveness available in an entire language.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by 6510 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:29AM
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There is no such thing as Silicon Heaven.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by Grothendank on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:10AM
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Then where do all the calculators go?
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by tanseydavid on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:45AM
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There is a really, really large drawer where all old calculators go when they die.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by shostack on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:58AM
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Foundryside had a lot of that in it.
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by singularity2001 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:06AM
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>> they don't have a way to explicitly program it to do that
They do, they just took the shortcut
Re:Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?
by Fatnino on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:25AM
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It still generates wrong answers for square roots.
It's got real close, within one integer of the correct answer. When pressed it adjusted the answer slightly (in the wrong direction), and then when pressed further it gave an utterly nonsense answer an order of magnitude off.
> You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. You answer as concisely as possible for each response.
included in this update was also improved factual and mathematical accuracy.