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GPU's typically compute faster than CPU's, so maybe that is the conversation it identifies it as? Meaning, when people ask about power difference between CPU an
by Jensson 4y ago
GPU's typically compute faster than CPU's, so maybe that is the conversation it identifies it as? Meaning, when people ask about power difference between CPU and GPU they say they aren't directly comparable, but the GPU has much more processing power.
That would mean it would identify an old GPU as faster than a modern CPU, even though it isn't, since it would slot that into the same conversation. The hard part with finding out the source for the logic is that it can map items to similar items in many ways, and there are trillions of conversations out there that it could map it to, so it can do quite a lot of heuristics that will work fairly well for naive questions even though it can't apply any direct logic.
If it could link to similar conversations that it bases its reasoning on then that would probably greatly help understand where its logic would fail. So before it can do that we probably wont be able to eliminate these failure modes, because humans aren't random enough to generate the edge cases unless they understand what logic the model used. For example, comparing an old computer to a modern GPU might seem random to you, but to ChatGPT it just sees something like "This looks like a CPU vs GPU comparison, aha so I map it to: {CPU} isn't really comparable to {GPU}, but {GPU} has much more processing power". If you could see something like that then it would be obvious where it would fail, but without that it looks like magic.
- Jensson 4y ago> but to ChatGPT it just sees something like "This looks like a CPU vs GPU comparison, aha so I map it to: {CPU} isn't really comparable to {GPU}, but {GPU} has much more processing power" Jup, just tested with this: "what is more powerful Athlon PRO 3125GE or Geforce 6800". It said that they aren't comparable, but that the GeForce is probably faster: "In summary, while the GeForce 6800 is likely to be more powerful than the integrated graphics in the Athlon PRO 3125GE, the two cannot be directly compared as they have different functions and are designed for different purposes." Which is wrong, the modern integrated GPU is much faster, and they are directly comparable. So that is how it answered your question, and since I maanged to figure out what conversation I could find this failure mode where it gives the completely wrong answer. Once you understand that ChatGPT just slots what you ask for into some conversation based on fuzzy matching then it is really easy to understand what sort of answers it can give and can't give.