On 10/13/25 10:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
ft <[email protected]> writes:
When I ask ChatGPT a question [...] I very often get the wrong answer.
Don't do that, then.
Artificial intelligence exists only in science fiction. ChatGPT is not
artificial intelligence, it is a deterministic computer program that
uses a large statistical model of natural language to complete text
submitted to it. Since it has been trained on a corpus that includes
many examples of questions followed by answers, when prompted with a
question, it will produce something that has the shape of an answer, but
absolutely no effort has gone into ensuring that the answer is correct,
nor does anyone involved have any idea how to even begin doing that.
Spotted this gem on another mailing list recently ..
All that *ANY* LLM can provide here is a statistically
less-improbable-than-random stream of words that may or may not include
any statements of true facts, uninfluenced by anything resembling knowledge.
Michael
