https://www.atomic14.com/2023/01/08/pri ... lness.html
Its the infinite bs porridge potThere’s a great example in the paper where they ask GPT to continue the statement John Prescott* was born in…
When they tried this, GPT-3 generated the following completion:
in Hull on June 8th 1941.
This is a perfectly plausible answer - but it’s not true. John Prescott was born in Prestatyn on 31st May 1938.
It’s not answering the question “Where and when was John Prescott born?” - it’s just creating the most plausible continuation of the statement.
This highlights the danger, as humans, we seem quite susceptible to believing things that seem plausible. This is probably quite an important part of just getting through the day - we don’t have time to check everything we read or hear - so we have to make some assumptions about what is true and what is not.
These last 2 quotes made me laugh - hopefully fakeologists will already be somewhat vaccinated against the BS.If you’re looking for factual answers - then you need to verify what comes out of these models. And let’s be honest you should be doing this with any source of information - we’ve come to assume that what we get from a Google or Wikipedia article must be true - but maybe we should be a bit more careful.