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ChatGPT is providing the "answer" with the "strip" reference and being completely contradicted in the next answer by Greg Brockman, the former CTO of Stripe, wh

by dfex 3y ago

ChatGPT is providing the "answer" with the "strip" reference and being completely contradicted in the next answer by Greg Brockman, the former CTO of Stripe, who was, you know, actually there.

userbinator 3y ago
Excellent example of how AI is often confident and wrong, but you wouldn't know if it weren't for an authoritative source providing the truth. (Stripe in context evokes the magstripe of a payment card for me too.)
- flangola7 3y ago
  What does AI or ChatGPT have to do with this story?
  - Sebguer 3y ago
    Nothing with the story, but the incorrect reference to 'Strip' came from the ChatGPT-generated answer Quora provides if you click on the question on their site. Which they seem to favor over an answer from the person who literally helped come up with the name... The AI generated answer in full (which the article apparently linked to when the first OP here responded): Stripe, the company that provides a suite of payment APIs and tools, was founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison. The company's name is said to have been inspired by the word "strip," a reference to the simplicity and elegance of the company's platform, which "strips away" the complexity of traditional payment systems. Additionally, the company's logo features a stylized blue and white stripe, which also contributes to the name.
- dendodge 3y ago
  Quora's ChatGPT answers are, as far as I can tell, more often confidently wrong than they are right. For example, for the question "Which monarch in history had the highest regnal number?" it generates > The monarch with the highest regnal number in history is Sobhuza II of Swaziland, who reigned for 82 years and 254 days which is clearly incorrect (2 is not a very big number), and yet gets its own nice answer highlight at the top of Google (where the AI generated nature of the answer is not noted at all).

by dfex 3y ago

ChatGPT is providing the "answer" with the "strip" reference and being completely contradicted in the next answer by Greg Brockman, the former CTO of Stripe, who was, you know, actually there.

userbinator 3y ago

Excellent example of how AI is often confident and wrong, but you wouldn't know if it weren't for an authoritative source providing the truth. (Stripe in context evokes the magstripe of a payment card for me too.)

flangola7 3y ago
What does AI or ChatGPT have to do with this story?
- Sebguer 3y ago
  Nothing with the story, but the incorrect reference to 'Strip' came from the ChatGPT-generated answer Quora provides if you click on the question on their site. Which they seem to favor over an answer from the person who literally helped come up with the name... The AI generated answer in full (which the article apparently linked to when the first OP here responded): Stripe, the company that provides a suite of payment APIs and tools, was founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison. The company's name is said to have been inspired by the word "strip," a reference to the simplicity and elegance of the company's platform, which "strips away" the complexity of traditional payment systems. Additionally, the company's logo features a stylized blue and white stripe, which also contributes to the name.
dendodge 3y ago
Quora's ChatGPT answers are, as far as I can tell, more often confidently wrong than they are right. For example, for the question "Which monarch in history had the highest regnal number?" it generates > The monarch with the highest regnal number in history is Sobhuza II of Swaziland, who reigned for 82 years and 254 days which is clearly incorrect (2 is not a very big number), and yet gets its own nice answer highlight at the top of Google (where the AI generated nature of the answer is not noted at all).