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Does more computation mean a better answer? If I ask it who was the king of England in 1850 the answer is a single name, everything else is completely useless.
by drexlspivey 2y ago
Does more computation mean a better answer? If I ask it who was the king of England in 1850 the answer is a single name, everything else is completely useless.
- striking 2y agoI mean in the general case. I have my instructions for brevity gated behind a key phrase, because I generally use ChatGPT as a vibe-y computation tool rather than a fact finding tool. I don't know that I'd trust it to spit out just one fact without a justification unless I didn't actually care much for the validity of the answer.
- acchow 2y agoIt gives better reuslts with “chain of thought”
- have_faith 2y agoIt's potentially a problem for follow up questions. As the whole conversation, to a limited amount of tokens, is fed back into itself to produce the next tokens (ad infinitum). So being terse leaves less room to find conceptual links between words, concepts, phrases, etc, because there are less of them being parsed for every new token requested. This isn't black and white though as being terse can sometimes avoid unwanted connections being made, and tangents being unnecessarily followed.
- card_zero 2y agoKing Victoria. Does that not benefit from a few clarifying words? Or is your whole point that "Victoria" is sufficient?
- Kiro 2y agoYou just proved yourself incorrect by picking a year when there was no king, completely invalidating "a single name, everything else is completely useless".
- im3w1l 2y agoMake me wonder if, when forcing it to do structured output, you should give it the option of saying "error: invalid assumptions" or something like that.