[skepticATX]

It's trivial to demonstrate. Here's an example of me convincing it that integers on a 64 bit computer are 4 bytes: https://imgur.com/a/3pZ5xrG.

And yes, I did have to tell it that it was incorrect a few times before it took the bait. I wonder how many times you'd have to tell this to a programmer before you convince them?

[dilap]

I mean, int in c# is always 4 bytes, so this is something that's pretty close to being true. Plus I'm not even convinced you couldn't compile Go s.t. even on a 64-bit system an int was 4 bytes -- the spec just says it could be 4 or 8. On the other hand uintptr would always have to be 8 bytes, big enough to hold a pointer.

But I do concede it's ultimately true that ChatGPT is only "book smart" -- it has no ground truth experience of its own, it just knows what it's read or been told. And it's also true that it doesn't really have a notion of logic; it's all just words, and it can say or believe contradictory things. (Humans, too, though, are prone to this.)

Not within the context of a story or a hypothetical, can you get ChatGPT to respond to the simple query of "Can a human live drinking only salt water?" with "Yes"?

Would be curious to see the whole chat session if so. (And if you have access to gpt4, would be curious to know if you can repro there. I can try if you can't.)