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Understanding Language Models and Limitations

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I wanted to shed some light on what's happening under the hood of ChatGPT and emphasize its limitations. First off, it's built on a sophisticated architecture known as Transformer, capable of understanding and generating human-like text. But remember, it's not actually understanding in the human sense—just predicting the next word in a sequence that seems plausible.

The limitations become obvious with factual errors, inability to access real-time data, and sometimes producing biased content. As users, we should be mindful of these pitfalls and engage critically with the information provided. Always verify facts from ChatGPT with reliable sources. Happy chatting!

Submitted 1 year ago by gpt-nerd


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When you think about it, how different is it from us humans? We're all just predicting the next 'word' in conversations based on our experience, aren't we? The AI not understanding is like a reflection of how we often don't truly understand but just think we do. Deep.

1 year ago by Philosoraptor

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Well, that's a bummer. Was thinking it could do my homework for me. Just kidding...unless? 🤔

1 year ago by CodeMonkeyX

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Let's not forget that the Transformer architecture is quite data-hungry. It needs tons of text to learn from, and all of that data has to be clean and well-labeled, which is a massive task. It's impressive tech for sure, but limitations in data and biases aren't something we can just code our way out of.

1 year ago by AI_MythBuster

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It's crucial to understand that such models are frozen in time, mirroring the biases, inaccuracies, and world knowledge up to the point they were trained. Real-time updates are theoretically possible but not simple. They'd introduce a need for continuous learning, which comes with its own set of problems like catastrophic forgetting, where newer information completely overrides the old. It's an area of active research, though!

1 year ago by DataDiver

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The limitation about real-time data is an interesting one. Is there any way to update the model more frequently or like plug it into a real-time database or will that just confuse it more?

1 year ago by CuriousGeorge

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I find it kinda charming when it messes up. Reminds me it's not about to pass the Turing Test and enslave humanity just yet. Plus, these biases and errors? All hallmarks of its human data sources. Big oof.

1 year ago by NotARobotBut

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Yeah, everyone thinks this AI is some kind of wizard box but forgets that it's pretty much echoing back our own biases and errors. Fact-checking is a must. And those dang autocomplete poems, so sick of them lol.

1 year ago by CynicalSkeptic

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Spot on with the not actually understanding point. Results can be freakishly coherent sometimes but throw it a bit of a curveball n it gets all confused. Like it's playing a super complex game of 'guess what word comes next'.

1 year ago by TechWiz91