Re:GPT-Prompt-Engineer
by flangola7 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:00AM
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I just asked and it told me cows are mammals and do not lay eggs. That Reddit post is not even GPT-4 and is 5 months old, which may as well be the 19th century on AI tech timescales.
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The post you're replying to is a case in point. This time it's cow eggs; what next?
Some people believe the earth is flat, but they can still provide useful work.
These people typically subscribe to a very limited number of conspiracy theories.
You are concentrating on the details and avoiding the point.
The point is that the tool fails, and it is known to fail, so much that we even have a name for the times when it fails - hallucinations. I have been calling them cow eggs because that's a nice mental image and I didn't want to have to remember for the proper English term. I will continue calling them cow eggs.