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Re:Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines? by mech422 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:49PM (#34658747)
Which, if my experience with users is anything to go by, will be 99% of the users. Even worse is people asking it about subjects they have no domain expertise in and having to wonder (or worse just assume) its correct. At the very least, it should give some easily understood indication of 'confidence'.

edit: I get very strong flashbacks to when wikipedia was new and people had to learn the hardway it wasn't always correct/up-to-date/etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines? by silversmith on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:13PM (#34658955)
The thing is, it's always confident. It gave you the highest confidence answer, out of many high confidence answers. Low confidence would imply the model has not seen the particular words before. A Markov chain does not suffer from imposter syndrome.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines? by mech422 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:32PM (#34659128)
Heh - I say the thing is to get the general public to realize that, and not assume "computers are always right" ? (eg, I don't think the problem is with chatGPT being 'wrong' - I think the problems start when people assume its right...)
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Re:Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines? by xiphias2 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:16PM (#34658993)
Do you consider yourself in the 99% or you're as confident in yourself as ChatGPT to be in the 1% smartest people in the world?
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Re:Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines? by mech422 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:30PM (#34659107)
Depends on the domain I'm asking it about? I have things I'm good at, and things I suck at.
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