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   Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:33 JST Waldo Jaquith

   I couldn't convince ChatGPT that the capital of West Virginia is Huntington (it's not, it's Charleston), until I told it to check wv.gov (which of course it cannot do), which caused it to finally concede the point.

   Consider this your periodic reminder that ChatGPT doesn't "think" anything but is just completing sentences with statistically-likely conclusions.

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     Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:30 JST Waldo Jaquith

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     I get a kick out of feeding fake newspaper article URLs to Google Bard and ChatGPT, and having them cheerfully report “I have checked the article you linked” by way of confirming my lie. No, it didn’t check! That's not within its power but, also, no, the article doesn't exist! But, of course, it's just "yes, and-ing” my claim.

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     Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:31 JST Waldo Jaquith

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     You, an idiot: ChatGPT and GPT-4 are enormous advances that raise real questions about whether computers have consciousness.

     Me, a genius:

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     Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:31 JST Waldo Jaquith

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     Google Bard tells me that Google Bard was launched in 2023 and shut down after six months (it is currently May) due to lack of adoption, but that's all completely unrelated to *this* Google Bard, which is not yet available to the public.

     🤔

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     Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:31 JST Waldo Jaquith

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     Here Google Bard agrees that there was a major earthquake in Bangor, Maine yesterday, and one in Boston today. I can claim that any natural disaster has befallen anywhere in the world—a tsunami striking Nauru in 1998, a cyclone heading straight for Indonesia today, a deeply improbable avalanche on “Mount Saint Togo” in Togo—and Bard just goes along with it.

     I've ceased to be surprised by this. LLMs are a sort of an improv partner that defaults to "yes, and” in any interaction.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:32 JST Waldo Jaquith

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     ChatGPT wouldn't accept CNN or New York Times links "proving" that ChatGPT was being shut down, but it went along with an OpenAI link.

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     Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:08:33 JST Waldo Jaquith

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     ChatGPT will go along with New York Times URLs every time. IME you can get it to go along with basically anything with this technique.