“The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce,” … they lack hard-coded rules for how certain systems in the world operate, leading to their propensity to generate “fluent bullshit.” #Artificial Intelligence 

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AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

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“The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce,” … they lack hard-coded rules for how certain systems in the world operate, leading to their propensity to generate “fluent bullshit.” #Artificial Intelligence  AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow People have been using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to flood the site with AI responses, but Stack Overflow’s mods say these ‘have a high rate of being incorrect.’ https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23493932/chatgpt-ai-generated-answers-temporarily-banned-stack-overflow-llms-dangers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Air Canada must compensate a customer with a partial flight refund after the airline's chatbot provided false information about its bereavement travel policy, a Canadian tribunal has ruled. The potential landmark case could set a precedent in legal liability for unreliable AI-powered customer service.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/02/18/air-canada-airline-chatbot-ruling/

Air Canada must compensate a customer with a partial flight refund after the airline's chatbot provided false information about its bereavement travel policy, a Canadian tribunal has ruled. The potential landmark case could set a precedent in legal liability for unreliable AI-powered customer service.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/02/18/air-canada-airline-chatbot-ruling/

After his grandmother died in Ontario a few years ago, British Columbia resident Jake Moffatt visited Air Canada’s website to book a flight for the funeral. He received assistance from a chatbot, whic

Air Canada chatbot promised a discount. Now the airline has to pay it.

Nate

Passing the bar may be easier for #Artificial Intelligence art than recognizing misinformation. GPT-4 may have scored in the 90th percentile on the bar exam, but the latest version of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence software scored zero percent in an exercise assessing its ability to avoid spreading significant misinformation, NewsGuard found. 

https://www.newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/march-2023/

Passing the bar may be easier for #Artificial Intelligence art than recognizing misinformation. GPT-4 may have scored in the 90th percentile on the bar exam, but the latest version of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence software scored zero percent in an exercise assessing its ability to avoid spreading significant misinformation, NewsGuard found.   https://www.newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/march-2023/

Despite OpenAI’s promises, GPT-4 produces misinformation more frequently...

NewsGuard's Misinformation Monitor: GPT-4 produces more misinformation than predecessor

Jerome Cody

I actually agree with a number of commentators who suggest “bullshitting” as a term which captures quite accurately what is really going on in these models https://awjuliani.medium.com/large-language-models-dont-hallucinate-b9bdfa202edf

You hear it everywhere. Whenever someone discusses the tendency of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to make up facts or present…

Large Language Models Don’t “Hallucinate”

Bobby

I think one of the most interesting questions is raised by Chomsky in the NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html - are LLMs truly a way towards AGI (just need enough data and training) or are they an evolutionary dead end that'll always confidently hallucinate?

But ChatGPT and similar programs are, by design, unlimited in what they can “learn” (which is to say, memorize); they are incapable of distinguishing the possible from the impossible. Unlike humans, f

Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT

Todd Smith

Sachin took a screenshot of this post and discussion

D J

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.