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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8937931" data-attributes="member: 58197">This is anthropomorphizing. A large language model is not "aggressively" anything. Nor is it dishonest -- it has no conception of truth and falsehood; it is incapable of honesty or dishonesty. It's true that it lacks humility, but in the way that a chair lacks humility.ChatGPT is merely a device for synthesizing text which resembles what a human would write. It's very, very good at that. Its problem is that it isn't hooked up to anything else. It's like the language centers of a brain, floating disembodied in the void, without access to the parts of the brain that make and store memories, process sensory experience, make moral judgements, etc.Except that in this case, it's the language centers of an absolutely gigantic brain which has been trained on every question ever posed on the Internet, and has practiced and practiced and practiced the answers that people made to those questions. So it has "reflexive" responses to the vast majority of things you might say to it, allowing it to seem conscious and intelligent. But when your question is one that hasn't been asked a lot, then its reflexes produce very odd results.If you feed ChatGPT a set of facts ("Assume the following statements are true") and then ask it questions relating to those facts, its responses -- at least from my admittedly limited testing -- are consistent with the facts it was given. I suspect the next big advance in AI will come from figuring out how to take a prompt, identify what factual information is relevant to that prompt, and go find those facts in some giant database.</blockquote>

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