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I find the guard rails they put in maddening and weirdly implemented. I wanted it to make up jokes for me and it’s jokes are the same few over and over. (I can

I find the guard rails they put in maddening and weirdly implemented. I wanted it to make up jokes for me and it’s jokes are the same few over and over. (I can never remember jokes so this is a super useful tool for me!) so I wanted it to tell me jokes in the style of Jerry Seinfeld. The guard rails prevented it from doing that because he’s a real person and it tries to not bend its personality pretty hard. However by just resetting the convo a few times I randomly got it to agree to tell me a joke. I can’t remember it but it was actually funny and in the style of Seinfeld. shrug It almost certainly has indexed Wikipedia, fwiw.

Oxidation 4y ago
Indexing Wikipedia (or any) text is a statistical thing though. When you ask a specific question like the size of a car, say, it will often come back with a compelling number in context, but if you actually look it up, it's usually not quite right. Another example is that it can just "invent" new functions when coming up with code snippets. Syntactically usually correct and completely plausible in the context, but simply doesn't exist. I also am pretty baffled by the limitations. I just assume they're trying to avoid "scammers use AI to construct false financial documents" type of furores in the early days (once the market is saturated with competition, blame will be too diffuse to stick) and convincing customers of their proprietary systems that they won't end up with a customer support bot that starts reciting racial slurs.