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There’s a difference between “can’t” and “won’t”. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it being up front that an attempt to answer a question is inherently
by orbz 3y ago
There’s a difference between “can’t” and “won’t”. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it being up front that an attempt to answer a question is inherently impossible for it to answer. Information like estimating X in Y may or may not be possible from the underlying training data depending on X and Y.
- robswc 3y agoThat's fair. Usually though when I ask these questions, it can provide an answer because it gives the information it needs in the response, it just doesn't want to take ownership of the statement "I guess there were X number of Y." I can usually get a rough estimate (that definitely makes sense or checks out) but it takes a lot of back and forth. Most memorable example was getting estimates of cars sold and what make/model. It would say "there were X of Y sold in 2020, but I cannot provide an estimate" only after some back and forth, so it certainly could have told me earlier.
- orbz 3y agoThat’s the thing though, it can be convinced to make a statement with conviction but that might not be based on fact. I just got ChatGPT4 to say that there might have been a few hundred mint green Kia Cherokees sold in 1997.
- robswc 3y agoI guess it depends on how accurate you need the info to be. I double check its answers and it provides decent estimates every time but only after getting around the "as an AI model I cannot..." wall.