Re:ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI r...
by gAI on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:47PM
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But it understands English words and translates the meaning behind them into code very well, particularly with a bit of iteration. Simply taking the interface from writing code to speaking in plain language is a huge practical accomplishment.
"Code" is really a much much much smaller and much much much more structured output than "English words".
Presumably, the system was trained with a very small amount of "untrue code" in the sense of stuff that just absolutely could never work. And also presumably, it was trained with a lot of free-form text that was definitely wrong or false, and highly likely to have been originally created to be purposefully misleading, or at a minimum, fiction.
That the system outputs reliable code tells us nothing about its current ability to output highly reliable free form text.