Linked List / February 2023

Fun Times With ChatGPT-Powered Bing Search ➶

Simon Willison:

But… they make things up. And that’s not a current bug that can be easily fixed in the future: it’s fundamental to how a language model works.

The only thing these models know how to do is to complete a sentence in a statistically likely way. They have no concept of “truth”—they just know that “The first man on the moon was… ” should be completed with “Neil Armstrong” while “Twinkle twinkle … ” should be completed with “little star” (example from this excellent paper by Murray Shanahan).

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I’d love to hear from expert AI researchers on this. My hunch as an enthusiastic amateur is that a language model on its own is not enough to build a reliable AI-assisted search engine.

✶ Thursday, 16 February 2023

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Possibly Related:

• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence (PDF)
• Summarize This, Please
• Drawing to Functioning Webpage with GPT-4
• My Mom Talks to ChatGPT
• First Conversation with ChatGPT

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