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Comment by richardwhiuk

6 months ago

Humans use the phrase "I don't know.".

AI never does.

>I'm not aware of any MS-DOS productivity program...

>I don't know of any MS-DOS productivity programs...

I dunno, seems pretty similar to me.

And in a totally unreltaed query today, I got the following response:

>That's a great question, but I don't have current information...

Sounds a lot like "I don't know".

  • >> And in a totally unreltaed query today, I got the following response:

    >That's a great question,

    Found the LLM who's training corpus includes transcripts of every motivational speaker and TED talk Q&A ever...

    • Yeah, I've been meaning to tweak my system prompt to try and avoid some of that kind of language, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Because there is no "I don't know" in the training data. Can you imagine a forum where in the response for a question of some obscure easter egg there are hunddeds of "I don't know"?