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by MuffinFlavored 1255 days ago
I always wondered why it bothers returning the first result if it can tell it's wrong 30 seconds later if you ask it again "I think that's wrong".

Why not do make the function that outputs answers also feed itself "is this actually right/are you sure/is this not wrong"? Too expensive? Giant loop?
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gabelschlager 1255 days ago
It's a language model trained to return the most likely answer given a specific prompt. The goal of the answer is, to simulate a conversation and to sound realistic. ChatGPT is not grounded in reality, it does not know where its "knowledge" comes from, nor does it know whether the things it is saying are correct or wrong.

It can't tell it's wrong, it just reacts in a plausible well to you telling it it's wrong (acknowledging it and giving another explanation). Since ChatGPT is an expansion of GPT-3, those things won't be really solved since being somewhat of a knowledge base is a nice side effect, not the main goal of the model.

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MuffinFlavored 1254 days ago
> It can't tell it's wrong

So you are saying the order of events if:

1. you ask it a question

2. it gives you an answer (in this case, it's wrong)

3. you ask it "are you sure? i think that's wrong"

4. it answers again "you are right, i think the answer i just gave you was wrong, here is what i think is the right answer this time" (and again, it's wrong)

and repeat forever?

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yetanotherloser 1255 days ago
Thank you, this is a really clear way of explaining it and a careful reading would be helpful to lots of people who think this is something it isn't.
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Oxidation 1255 days ago
> Why not do make the function that outputs answers also feed itself "is this actually right/are you sure/is this not wrong"? Too expensive? Giant loop?

They do this, with humans. Both during training (they use supervised and reinforcement learning), and now at a much greater scale: it's what the free public access period is for and why there's a thumbs up/down button next to the output.

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akmarinov 1255 days ago
It can't tell that it's wrong. You tell it that it's wrong.

Then you reset your session, you ask the same question and you get the wrong answer again.

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