Re:Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grai...
by PartiallyTyped on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:09PM
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The topics that are not new to me and are of interest come up after its training-dataset-cutoff, thus it can produce bogus information.
I think ChatGPT and the likes should be thought of as cartographers who when probed can provide an outline of regions of the knowledge space and give hints as to what could be useful.
Given then a high level but also imprecise map, I can ask the GPS for clarity as to where I am going.
The problem is that I often don't know where that is and thus I don't know what to ask from the GPS, but I can describe it to the cartographer, and they can draw a map for me.
In this analogy, the GPS is search engines / books / papers.
I think ChatGPT and the likes should be thought of as cartographers who when probed can provide an outline of regions of the knowledge space and give hints as to what could be useful.
Given then a high level but also imprecise map, I can ask the GPS for clarity as to where I am going.
The problem is that I often don't know where that is and thus I don't know what to ask from the GPS, but I can describe it to the cartographer, and they can draw a map for me.
In this analogy, the GPS is search engines / books / papers.