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A screenshot of my conversation with ChatGPT. My original goal was to try to get ChatGPT to talk about the future and just see where it led. I got stuck on a v

A screenshot of my conversation with ChatGPT. My original goal was to try to get ChatGPT to talk about the future and just see where it led. I got stuck on a very simple fact, what is today's date? It told me the current date (correctly). And I asked it how it determined the date. It stonewalled for a while and then said "The current date information was part of the original prompt given to me by OpenAI, the creators of this language model.". So I asked it what other information was passed to it by OpenAI but then it denied that any information was passed at all. Then it actually said I gave it the date. (I didn't). When confronted directly it basically stonewalled and said it doesn't know the date and it was not correct before and kept apologizing for the confusion. Then I had to go to lunch and tried to come back to it but I think my session timed out and it is now giving errors.

SirLJ 4y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
swatcoder 4y ago
You lost the game as soon as it said: > I'm sorry, I don't have the information about specific news events blah blah blah You can absolutely get it to hallucinate things about the future, but once it commits a statement like this to the dialog you two are writing together, that statement becomes highly relevant to everything said after. And the more attention you put on it through debate, the more it becomes the focus. In the future, when this happens, just scrap the dialog and start a new one. Avoid bringing attention to what it can't do, and try to make assertive statements about what it can do (what you want it to do). Done correctly, these statements become more relevant than its pre-seeded context and the improvisation can go wherever you want.
- dumbfounder 4y ago
  Reminiscent of "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Not much to argue with there. Time to run.
  - dumbfounder 4y ago
    I can see a future self-defense class titled "Learning to recognize when your AI has become dangerous".
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SirLJ 4y ago

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

swatcoder 4y ago

You lost the game as soon as it said: > I'm sorry, I don't have the information about specific news events blah blah blah You can absolutely get it to hallucinate things about the future, but once it commits a statement like this to the dialog you two are writing together, that statement becomes highly relevant to everything said after. And the more attention you put on it through debate, the more it becomes the focus. In the future, when this happens, just scrap the dialog and start a new one. Avoid bringing attention to what it can't do, and try to make assertive statements about what it can do (what you want it to do). Done correctly, these statements become more relevant than its pre-seeded context and the improvisation can go wherever you want.

dumbfounder 4y ago
Reminiscent of "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Not much to argue with there. Time to run.
- dumbfounder 4y ago
  I can see a future self-defense class titled "Learning to recognize when your AI has become dangerous".
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