>>>> They cannot say "I dont know" >>> If they were trained with more uncertain content, perhaps they'd be better at expressing uncertainty as well. >> (me) I

>>>> They cannot say "I dont know" >>> If they were trained with more uncertain content, perhaps they'd be better at expressing uncertainty as well. >> (me) If you ask ChatGPT a question, and tell it to either respond with the answer or "I don't know", it will respond "I don't know" if you ask it whether you have a brother or not. > This has nothing to do with thinking and everything to do with the fact that given that input the answer was the most probable output given the training data. First of all, my claim was in response to "They cannot say 'I dont know'" and "perhaps they'd be better at expressing uncertainty". ChatGPT can say "I don't know" if you ask it to. Regarding whether LLMs are lookup tables, I responded to that in more detail elsewhere under this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501611