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"Its", not "It's". A helpful tip: whenever you need to decide whether to use one or the other, ask yourself whether you want to say "it is"; if so, use "it's";
by shrimp_emoji 4y ago
"Its", not "It's".
A helpful tip: whenever you need to decide whether to use one or the other, ask yourself whether you want to say "it is"; if so, use "it's"; otherwise, use "its".
Interestingly, ChatGPT knows whether to use "it's" or "its" at what seems like a superhuman level, but we don't even really know how it knows whether to use "a" vs. "an": https://clementneo.com/posts/2023/02/11/we-found-an-neuron https://clementneo.com/posts/2023/02/11/we-found-an-neuron
- ahahahahah 4y ago> how it knows whether to use "a" vs. "an": It doesn't "know" that and this is a great example of how clearly it doesn't know things even when it can produce text that if a person produced it you'd assume indicates understanding. Ask it to explain when to use "a" vs "an" and you'll get a good explanation. Give it a test, though and it'll often fail. For example: > me: Imagine that there's an animal called a "honbukle" pronounced like ending in "buckle" and starting with "on". Tell a short story about having seen one. > chatgpt: <blah blah blah> "It sounds like you saw a honbukle," they said. <blah blah blah>
- ahahahahah 4y agoIn fact, it will reliably fail such a test because it just reproduces the most likely thing from its training corpus with no understanding of the actual rules under which to use "a" vs "an".