Comment by DrScientist
3 days ago
ChatGPT for me gives:
> Connie Altman (née Grossman), dermatologist, based in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Ironically the Maiden name is right there on wikipedia.
3 days ago
ChatGPT for me gives:
> Connie Altman (née Grossman), dermatologist, based in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Ironically the Maiden name is right there on wikipedia.
Isn't it amazing that all our jobs are being gutted or retooled for relying on this tech and it has this level of unreliability. To date, with every LLM, if I actually know the domain in depth, the interactions are always with me pushing back with facts at hand and the LLM doing the "You are right! Thanks for correcting me!"
> Isn't it amazing that all our jobs are being gutted or retooled for relying on this tech
No not really, if you examine what it's replacing. Humans have a lot of flaws too and often make the same mistakes repeatedly. And compared to a machine they're incredibly expensive and slow.
Part of it may be that with LLMs you get the mistake back in an instant, where with the human it might take a week. So ironically the efficiency of the LLM makes it look worse because you see more mistakes.
Sorry, your comparative analysis (beyond its rather strange disconnect with your fellow Human beings) ignores the fact that a "stellar" model will fail in this way whereas with us humans, we do get generationally exceptional specimens that push the envelope for the rest of us.
To make this crystal clear: Human geniuses were flawed beings but generally you would expect highly reliable utility from their minds. Einstein would not unexpetedly let you down when discussing physics. Gauss would kick ass reliably in terms of mathematics. etc. etc. (This analysis is still useful when we lower the expectations to graduated levels, from genius to brilliant to highly capable to the lower performance tiers, so we can apply it to society as a whole.)
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