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by x3haloed 659 days ago
I’d like you to explain what you don’t know, and why.
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I don't know the history of the original tribes in Brazil. Why? Because I haven't studied it, read about it, or been taught anything on the subject. I know that such tribes exist, but I don't know their history.
FWIW, lately prompts seem more able to elict that same sort of answer from both Claude and GPT-4x on thinly learned contexts.
And, next release, they'll have had been trained on one more example of an answer for that sort of question ;)
Your post now will probably join the mix. So will mine and all the others here.
We can consider any question and conclude that we don’t know the answer. LLMs can’t meaningfully do that. They just make stuff up.