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by skybrian 1128 days ago
It's unreasonable for the user to be able to guess what the software can do when it's a wide-open text interface and gives you no guidance. An ideal UI would be one where you can ask any question and if it's not something the computer can do, it would tell you, and perhaps give you some hints for what it can do. That is, you should be able to learn its limitations by playing with it.

There are some things ChatGPT will refuse to do, but there are also a lot of missing error messages. This is because the LLM doesn't know what it knows. All error messages need to be trained in.

One example of a category where the error message is missing is asking why it wrote something. It's reasonable to ask, but it doesn't know:

https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chatbots-dont-know-why-th...

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GPT+plugins should know when to respond directly and when to delegate.
They’re not talking about plugins.