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To: SeekAndFind
Another interesting item, from the ZDNET article:

Despite looking very impressive, ChatGPT still has limitations.  Such limitations include the inability to answer questions that are worded a specific way, as it requires rewording to understand the input question.  A bigger limitation is a lack of quality in the responses it delivers — which can sometimes be plausible-sounding but make no practical sense or can be excessively verbose."

Instead of asking for clarification on ambiguous questions, the model just takes a guess at what your question means, which can lead to unintended responses to questions. Already this has led developer question-and-answer site StackOverflow to at least temporarily ban ChatGPT-generated responses to questions.

"The primary problem is that while the answers that ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce," says Stack Overflow moderators in a post. Critics argue that these tools are just very good at putting words into an order that makes sense from a statistical point of view, but they cannot understand the meaning or know whether the statements it makes are correct.

Another major limitation is that ChatGPT's data is limited to 2021. The chatbot does not have an awareness of events or news that have occurred since then. Therefore, some prompts you ask it will render no results such as "Who won the World Cup in 2022?"


2 posted on 02/14/2023 9:29:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
In order to "use" this language model, you have to surrender your name and email address.


4 posted on 02/14/2023 9:33:07 AM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: SeekAndFind

The avalanche of ChatGPT hatred is funded by Google.

Google’s entire business model is to sell ads every time someone does a search and gets page upon page of things to read related to the search. Every one of those pages has ads on them.

ChatGPT doesn’t take those ads from Google. It destroys the ads entirely. This is why Microsoft and Bing can embrace it. ChatGPT doesn’t give page upon page of results. It merely answers the question posed.

Bing is so small that any ad increase they get is huge growth %, while simultaneously destroying Google’s business model.

ChatGPT answers questions. Don’t obsess over the political and social questions asked of it, because they weren’t generating ad revenue anyway. Just ask it things like how many stars are within 50 light years. It will give you an answer. And it will do so without pages of ads for telescopes.


7 posted on 02/14/2023 9:35:46 AM PST by Owen
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