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Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by joeythedolphin on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:51AM (#39466348)
I don't know, it's more then this. I ask ChatGPT to teach me all about Hinduism, the siva purana, ancient indian customs, etc., and it is an incredible tutor. I can ask it to analyze things from a Jungian perspective. I can ask it to consider ideas from a non-typical perspective, etc. It is pretty incredible, it is more then a word gargler.
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by nottorp on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:14AM (#39467334)
"teach you all".

So you don't know enough to evaluate the answers. Or where to find the original sources it quoted or mixed.

Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by throwuwu on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:37PM (#39471205)
Original sources aren’t necessarily infallible either, but that’s beside the point, asking ChatGPT needs to be viewed as asking a person to recount something from memory. It hasn’t been reviewed or edited so it’s like a first draft rather than a published document. That’s the error that people tend to make since they treat it like a search engine instead of a conversation.
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by nottorp on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:21PM (#39471736)
> they treat it like a search engine instead of a conversation.

That's because web searches are so polluted that for a lot of purposes even ChatGPT 3.5 is better.

Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by joeythedolphin on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:43AM (#39492343)
Um yes I do? Lol why do you just assume this?
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by EchoChamberMan on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:27AM (#39467544)
It is, unquestionably, from the math, a "word gargler" as you put it.

https://xkcd.com/1838/

Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by joeythedolphin on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:43AM (#39492353)
No it's a digital neural network expressing it's inputs and outputs in language.
Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT by EchoChamberMan on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:16AM (#39500180)
If you trust the words that machine strings together, you're making dangerous assumptions - look at the lawyers getting busted for submitting fake cases. These things are literally designed to sound plausible as the primary concern - facts aren't really a thing.