Tell me briefly about the TCP/IP protocol and provide links to relevant sources
ChatGPT:
TCP/IP Protocol Overview Definition & Purpose: TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the foundational communication protocol suite for the internet and other networks. It dictates how data is transmitted over the network by breaking it into packets, addressing them, transmitting them, and ensuring they are received correctly.
Key Components:
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol): Ensures reliable delivery of data by establishing a connection and managing the transmission process, including packet sequencing and error handling. IP (Internet Protocol): Handles addressing and routing of packets, ensuring they reach the correct destination across diverse networks. Functionality:
Data Handling: Data is divided into packets, which are then sent and reassembled at the destination. Error Correction & Sequencing: TCP handles errors and maintains the correct sequence of data packets, ensuring integrity in communication. Importance: TCP/IP is critical for setting up the internet and intranet networks, allowing different types of computers to communicate effectively regardless of their architecture, operating system, or data structure.
Further Reading & Sources:
RFC Documents (Request for Comments):https://www.rfc-editor.org/
These are detailed documents that specify the protocols and policies of the internet, including TCP/IP standards. They are available through the IETF RFC Pages. Internet Society:https://www.internetsociety.org/
A global, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the internet. It offers various publications and resources on internet protocols at Internet Society. Educational Institutions:https://ocw.mit.edu/
Many universities and technical institutes provide comprehensive notes and lectures online. Resources like MIT's OpenCourseWare or Stanford's Engineering Everywhere often have relevant materials on networking and protocols. By exploring these resources, you can delve deeper into how TCP/IP works, its role in modern communications, and the technical details underlying internet networking."
I copied the urls of the links because I dont know how to hyperlink on HN and the Stanford Engineering Everywhere link was broken. This is from the standard GPT4 ChatGPT web client. No plugins or browsing features enabled.
The problem is that those links doesn't link to where it got that text, it links to whatever that text linked to. Saying it is giving links is like saying that when I copy paste an article with links I am providing links to the source. No I am not, I am plagiarizing including plagiarizing those links.
So, it has read some TCP tutorials and wrote that blurb based on those. Don't you think it is fair that it links one of those to give credit? LLMs aren't capable of writing tutorials based on specs, they write tutorials based on tutorials it has seen, it should link to those.
I'll be sure to tell everyone that uses the Internet
By far the wildest piece of this stuff is that it near completely obliterates any traces of where the outputs come from. The black box is trained, and yes sometimes some salient data pole rfc's are captures, but generally where each training comes from is not stored. That would largely defeat the purpose, would make the data it's crunching essentially incompressible, to store so much origin information.
Deeply unimpressed by this answer. This isn't linking it's sources, of where this response was trained upon. It probably got the write up & links from hundreds of other places.
Do you mean in the Browsing Mode or something? I don't think it is naturally capable of that, both because it is performing lossy compression, and because in many cases it simply won't know where the text that was fed to it during training came from.