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Do they have plans to update it’s knowledge of current events?

• jacooper 4y ago
  Yes https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/ https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/
  • HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
    That currently appears to be a different product "WebGPT", rather than a ChatGPT update. There are two ways of giving ChatGPT access to events that post-date the time it's training set was collected. 1) Fine tune (or re-train - but very expensive) on more recent web pages, focusing on ones likely to contain current events, such as news sources. 2) Like WebGPT, train ChatGPT to generate queries for information that can be fed into a variety of external "query response" systems such as web browser, database, mathematica, etc. I guess one difficulty with this second more promising approach, is when would ChatGPT emit it's own naive "sequence of words" response, and when would it emit the response of this indirect query lookup, and/or how would it combine the hopefully factually correct query response into the factualness-unknown word soup it inherently generates. Although this is a more promising approach in terms of having ChatGPT behave they way people want/expect it to, it's a bit ironic in that it really means ChatGPT is itself dumber - it's just being used as a front end for search, essentially "aligned" to emit "what query is most likely to satisfy this sequence of words prompt", so really exposing itself for what it is - a language model that knows about words/language, but not about facts (or reasoning, etc). Of course the real value of some (to be developed) future AI that actually has reasoning capabilities would be to combine multiple sources of data to deduce facts, employ chains of reasoning, and answer novel questions in a logic/fact-based manner.