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by rdedev 1280 days ago
I just had a run in with this yesterday. I asked it to explain box embeddings. It's a pretty niche topic so I didn't expect it to give the right answer. But the answer it gave sounded so confident but it was so wrong. It took a not al vector embeddings approach but replaced that with box. I tried correcting it but it refused to budge and still sounded confident.
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I asked it to explain part of my thesis work on Oblivious Transfer, and it gave me a lovely prose description of the Green-Hohenberger Oblivious Transfer protocol. It was clear and confident, and the thing it described was even an actual protocol. It just wasn’t in any way our protocol: GPT just took some classical protocol it found elsewhere and relabeled it.
Sounds like many humans I know.