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(not OP) over on reddit people are saying it is fantastic for giving them excel formulas they ask for. I guess it means the formulas work!

• hermitcrab 4y ago
  That is one of the big issues with AIs like ChatGPT though. It gives you a plausible sounding answer, but that answer might be total BS. It doesn't tell you what degree of confidence it has in the answer. Maybe the formulas it gives are right 100%, 99% or 0% of the time.
  • Sharlin 4y ago
    Yes, and I think that in order for helper AIs like ChatGPT to really break through, people (especially in marketing) will have to learn to embrace confidence intervals, or at least some quantitative concept of confidence. The AI already knows how confident it is in its prediction, it's just a UI question. If plain numbers are too nerdy or Spock-y, at least tell me something like "I'm fairly sure" or "I'm not sure, but..."
  • otabdeveloper4 4y ago
    Good lord, it doesn't have any confidence at all. It's just a database query with a lossy compression step. What's the confidence level of copy-pasting random code snippets from Stackoverflow?
    • hermitcrab 4y ago
      With Stackoverflow you can base your confidence in an answer on: -the number of upvotes -the reputation of the poster -the post - sometimes posters will say "I haven't tested this" -comments With ChatGPT you have no idea.