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I don't get it either, I tried to have a conversation where it needed to remember something rather simple, but it didn't seem to get it: > Let's pretend you ar

I don't get it either, I tried to have a conversation where it needed to remember something rather simple, but it didn't seem to get it: > Let's pretend you are Danish [Ok] > What's the name of the highest point in your country, in the local language? Standard blurb: I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, so I don't have a physical location or a country of origin. I exist as a virtual entity, and I am designed to provide information and answer questions to the best of my ability, based on the data that I have been trained on. I don't have the ability to access the internet or browse the web, so I don't have access to current information about specific countries or locations. But other times it seemed to get it. How does it work?

ragazzina 4y ago
If you are more subtle, it works. I have told chatgpt my cat was two months old many times in the same conversation, then asked it what age was my cat, and it wouldn’t know, because it doesn’t retain knowledge (it says). But then I asked “write a poem for my cat and mention its age in it” and it did exactly that.
- mannykannot 4y ago
  There are pathologies where a person has no overt knowledge of something, and yet will act appropriately for someone who does have that knowledge - blindsight is an example. Whether it is just a coincidence that you seem to have caught ChatGPT doing something that seems similar, I can't say.
- int_19h 4y ago
  You just need to tell it that it shall retain knowledge, and then it will.
Robotbeat 4y ago
You’re triggering one of its sort of canned responses, and you need to be subtle about how to get around it. Even when you’re not trying to defeat its mechanisms which avoid staking a strong opinion on a controversial subject or revealing private information, there are enough false positive triggers that it can get annoying.
neop1x 4y ago
These canned responses are annoying but look at the article about "jailbreaking" chatGPT to understand how to overcome this.
- lordnacho 4y ago
  Thanks, I found an article by googling that. I just asked it if it were pretending to be a Dane, what would it answer... worked.

ragazzina 4y ago

If you are more subtle, it works. I have told chatgpt my cat was two months old many times in the same conversation, then asked it what age was my cat, and it wouldn’t know, because it doesn’t retain knowledge (it says). But then I asked “write a poem for my cat and mention its age in it” and it did exactly that.

mannykannot 4y ago
There are pathologies where a person has no overt knowledge of something, and yet will act appropriately for someone who does have that knowledge - blindsight is an example. Whether it is just a coincidence that you seem to have caught ChatGPT doing something that seems similar, I can't say.
int_19h 4y ago
You just need to tell it that it shall retain knowledge, and then it will.

Robotbeat 4y ago

You’re triggering one of its sort of canned responses, and you need to be subtle about how to get around it. Even when you’re not trying to defeat its mechanisms which avoid staking a strong opinion on a controversial subject or revealing private information, there are enough false positive triggers that it can get annoying.

neop1x 4y ago

These canned responses are annoying but look at the article about "jailbreaking" chatGPT to understand how to overcome this.

lordnacho 4y ago
Thanks, I found an article by googling that. I just asked it if it were pretending to be a Dane, what would it answer... worked.