What Is ChatGPT Doing… and Why Does It Work?
February 14th, 2023I’m surprised that Wolfram didn’t place quotation marks around, “Work,” in the title of this essay.
In a piece from a few days ago, Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT, he shows several fascinating examples of ChatGPT giving wrong answers to prompts involving quantitative data.
Via: Wolfram Writings:
The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of webpages, etc.”
