[seba_dos1]

It sure can acknowledge being wrong, but it's not what it's there for.

GPT is the ultimate cosplayer. It pretends to be who you want it to be. If you want it to answer a question, it will make up something that looks like a valid answer to that question. Sometimes it may actually be the right answer (after all, the right answer has a pretty good chance to look like the right answer), but ultimately being right is not the goal it's trying to achieve - all it "wants" is to autocomplete your prompt in a plausible way.

Instead of making it try to come up with the answer, you can, for example, ask it (either explicitly or indirectly) to cosplay a scientist who is unsure of their position and tries to evaluate various options - and it will be happy to oblige.

What's worrying is not whether the model "acknowledges being wrong" or not - it's rather how it's being marketed to people and, in turn, what people expect from it. We've got plenty of submissions here on HN with people being surprised that the model has made up exactly what they asked it for - for example [0], which shouldn't happen if there wasn't a dissonance between what people think it's doing and what it's actually doing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672