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A good engaging teacher... that gives you incorrect information?
by kevviiinn 4y ago
A good engaging teacher... that gives you incorrect information?
- junofan 4y agoI haven’t had this problem in my own use. But I don’t try to trip it up.
- kevviiinn 4y agoEvery time I ask one of these models any sort of semi detailed question about a science/bio topic it either gets some info blatantly wrong, misuses terms, or a combination of both
- startupsfail 4y agoCertainly. But the observation that I was making is that it is likely above median. You are likely far above the median yourself and an expert in the particular area.
- kevviiinn 4y agoI think the difference between chatgpt and a good teacher is that a good teacher knows when to say "I don't know" and not feed their student BS that makes no sense. That's where the real damage happens
- startupsfail 4y agoYes, it does behaves a bit like that exhausted outsourced call center that would give the customer an easy answer with a wish that a customer would not notice that a lazy answer was in fact given. Instead of giving the best insight possible with the clarity of limitations of that insight. This is maybe caused by precisely the nature and the origins of the training data.
- kevviiinn 4y agoMisinforming is worse than not informing
- miles 4y agoThere's no need to try; ChatGPT is often wrong right out of the gate. I asked which movie a quote was from as my first question, which ChatGPT identified precisely. The problem: it was precisely wrong. When I said I just searched the script and could find no mention of the quote, ChatGPT replied, "I apologize for the error in my previous response. Upon reviewing my sources, I couldn't find any reference to the line... I'm sorry for any confusion that my previous response may have caused."
- startupsfail 4y agoI wonder if this is actually an alignment with the responses that an exhausted worker in a sweatshop could give. What you put in is what you get…