TL;DR: LLMs are just mimicking natural language and conversation. Fact checking and healthy skepticism is not part of their model. For example they can be easily tricked into advocating conspiracy theories, like a fake moon landing. Google Bard is even stating arithmetic falsehoods like 5*6 != 30
This is what I keep telling my friends who use them to ‘write research papers/articles’. It’s just a bunch of bs, that I don’t trust.
Thanks, but I’m going to continue to research and lookup my own info.
I tried to use ChatGPT help speed up my writing, like I tried using “give me a brief history of Queen Dido’s relationship with Caesar” when working on a character inspired by Queen Dido and then it gave me completely false information relating to some other historical figure.
Until it can get more trustworthy in that regard I’m not sure how effective it is for writing assistance let alone writing the entire paper by itself.
It’s not intelligent, but it’s very agreeable, which is all it takes to lead people.
The only use so far with any value (moral or factual) seems to be insane entertainment. I can’t stop having a chuckle of the Harry Squatter videos and interactions people have with Neuro-sama.
I think trying to use this for anything even remotely factual is just asking for a paddlin’.
not sure what you’re saying here. are you claiming it can’t do any sort of reasoning or open-ended problem solving?
i think we’re fairly confident now that they can do structured reasoning to some degree. it is not flawless in that it might not give you real or accurate information every time, but we are also figuring out the contexts behind that. as for spreading misinformation, anything intentional prompted to be incorrect is irrelevant to gauging intelligence. unintentional results don’t necessarily mean it’s unintelligent either.
there’s a really good document on this aspect as well.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post
there are a lot of ethical and technical aspects of LLMs that are severely underdeveloped, but that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. i don’t think any of that would suggest that it’s reasonable to disregard the absurd pace of development this past decade, and last few years especially. good thing we have a sudden surge of attention towards developing these things.
