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A lot of people say that the model is "lying" when it returns incorrect facts. Generally when friends or family confidently assert facts that they are sure but
by mwigdahl 4y ago
A lot of people say that the model is "lying" when it returns incorrect facts.
Generally when friends or family confidently assert facts that they are sure but also incorrect about, we call them "misinformed" rather than connoting malice with the word "lying".
Have they heard the right facts but associated them incorrectly? Heard the wrong facts from whatever source they obtained them from? Either or both could also be true of ChatGPT.
- Miraste 4y agoYes, and either word is anthropomorphising. I stick with "lying" nonetheless, because if you start a conversation with "What color is the sun?" it returns a correct answer. It already has the association between "sun" and "white" in the model, but for whatever reason the context of my conversation made it say the sun is red. "Lying" seems to describe this behavior better than "misinformed."
- Oxidation 4y agoIt's more like you can't actually read but you've seen a lot of media about cars that contain text saying they have a thing called a "width" around the 1.7-2m mark and usually aren't round numbers. So when someone asks you how wide a 2011[1] Ford Focus is[2], you say "1,769mm" and look confident. Syntactically right and by any probabilistic model, pretty good and plausible. [1] and if you ask for 2012, it tells you "I'm sorry, but I am not able to browse the internet to provide you with the specific dimensions of the 2012 Ford Focus." [2] according to Google results, it's 1823 mm to 1842 mm.