Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:38:17 -0400 From: Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to do, if chatgpt gives a wrong answer Message-ID: <d716c704-3ae7-4c6a-a37b-fcecc3b743cf@protected-networks.net> In-Reply-To: <865xci7udf.fsf@ltc.des.dev> References: <2ee60f98af9e62da887deb970006a86dfe19a207.camel@ft-c.de> <865xci7udf.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
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On 10/13/25 10:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > ft <ml@ft-c.de> writes: >> When I ask ChatGPT a question [...] I very often get the wrong answer. > > Don't do that, then. > > Artificial intelligence exists only in science fiction. ChatGPT is not > artificial intelligence, it is a deterministic computer program that > uses a large statistical model of natural language to complete text > submitted to it. Since it has been trained on a corpus that includes > many examples of questions followed by answers, when prompted with a > question, it will produce something that has the shape of an answer, but > absolutely no effort has gone into ensuring that the answer is correct, > nor does anyone involved have any idea how to even begin doing that. Spotted this gem on another mailing list recently .. All that *ANY* LLM can provide here is a statistically less-improbable-than-random stream of words that may or may not include any statements of true facts, uninfluenced by anything resembling knowledge. Michael
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