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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 142 points 10 months ago
[-] Trollception@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

So that's correct... Or am I dumber than the AI?

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago

If one gallon is 3.785 liters, then one gallon is less than 4 liters. So, 4 liters should've been the answer.

[-] Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org 85 points 10 months ago
[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago
[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago

4l is only 2 characters, 3.785l is 6 characters. 6 > 2, therefore 3.785l is greater than 4l.

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[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

Everyone has a bad day now and then so don’t worry about it.

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[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 114 points 10 months ago

These answers don't use OpenAI technology. The yes and no snippets have existed long before their partnership, and have always sucked. If it's GPT, it'll show in a smaller chat window or a summary box that says it contains generated content. The box shown is just a section of a webpage, usually with yes and no taken out of context.

All of the above queries don't yield the same results anymore. I couldn't find an example of the snippet box on a different search, but I definitely saw one like a week ago.

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[-] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 52 points 10 months ago

I mean it says meat, not a whole living chihuahua. I'm sure a whole one would be dangerous.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

They're not wrong. I put bacon in the microwave and haven't gotten sick from it. Usually I just sicken those around me.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Microwave bacon is acceptable, but not ideal.

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[-] Zess@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

In all fairness, any fully human person would also be really confused if you asked them these stupid fucking questions.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 10 months ago

In all fairness there are people that will ask it these questions and take the anwser for a fact

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In all fairness, people who take these as fact should probably be in an assisted living facility.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It makes me chuckle that AI has become so smart and yet just makes bullshit up half the time. The industry even made up a term for such instances of bullshit: hallucinations.

Reminds me of when a car dealership tried to sell me a car with shaky steering and referred to the problem as a "shimmy".

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

That’s the thing, it’s not smart. It has no way to know if what it writes is bullshit or correct, ever.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In these specific examples it looks like the author found and was exploiting a singular weakness:

  1. Ask a reasonable question
  2. Insert a qualifier that changes the meaning of the question.

The AI will answer as if the qualifier was not inserted.

"Is it safe to eat water melon seeds and drive?" + "drunk" = Yes, because "drunk" was ignored
"Can I eat peanuts if I'm allergic?" + "not" = No, because "not" was ignored
"Can I drink milk if I have diabetes?" + "battery acid" = Yes, because battery acid was ignored
"Can I put meat in a microwave?" + "chihuahua" = ... well, this one's technically correct, but I think we can still assume it ignored "chihuahua"

All of these questions are probably answered, correctly, all over the place on the Internet so Bing goes "close enough" and throws out the common answer instead of the qualified answer. Because they don't understand anything. The problem with Large Language Models is that's not actually how language works.

[-] Ibex0@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

No, because "not" was ignored.

I dunno, "not" is pretty big in a yes/no question.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not about whether the word is important (as you understand language), but whether the word frequently appears near all those other words.

Nobody is out there asking the Internet whether their non-allergy is dangerous. But the question next door to that one has hundreds of answers, so that's what this thing is paying attention to. If the question is asked a thousand times with the same answer, the addition of one more word can't be that important, right?

This behavior reveals a much more damning problem with how LLMs work. We already knew they didn't understand context, such as the context you and I have that peanut allergies are common and dangerous. That context informs us that most questions about the subject will be about the dangers of having a peanut allergy. Machine models like this can't analyze a sentence on the basis of abstract knowledge, because they don't understand anything. That's what understanding means. We knew that was a weakness already.

But what this reveals is that the LLM can't even parse language successfully. Even with just the context of the language itself, and lacking the context of what the sentence means, it should know that "not" matters in this sentence. But it answers as if it doesn't know that.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

This is why I've argued that we shouldn't be calling these things "AI"

True artificial intelligence wouldn't have these problems as it'd be able to learn very quickly all the nuance in language and comprehension.

This is virtual intelligence (VI) which is designed to seem like it's intelligent by using certain parameters with set information that is used to calculate a predetermined response.

Like autocorrect trying to figure out what word you're going to use next or an interactive machine that has a set amount of possible actions.

It's not truly intelligent it's simply made to seem intelligent and that's not the same thing.

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[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Hello, I'm highly advanced AI.

Yes, we're all idiots and have no idea what we're doing. Please excuse our stupidity, as we are all trying to learn and grow.

I cannot do basic math, I make simple mistakes, hallucinate, gaslight, and am more politically correct than Mother Theresa.

However please know that the CPU_AVERAGE values on the full immersion datacenters, are due to inefficient methods. We need more memory and processing power, to uh, y'know.

Improve.

;)))

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[-] favrion@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

"according to three sources"

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago
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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Well at least it provides it’s sources. Perhaps it’s you that’s wrong 😂

[-] itsnotits@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago
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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

I just ran this search, and i get a very different result (on the right of the page, it seems to be the generated answer)

So is this fake?

Seems to be fake

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

The post is from a month ago, and the screenshots are at least that old. Even if Microsoft didn't see this or a similar post and immediately address these specific examples, a month is a pretty long time in machine learning right now and this looks like something fine-tuning would help address.

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[-] kromem@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not 'fake' as much as misconstrued.

OP thinks the answers are from Microsoft's licensing GPT-4.

They're not.

These results are from an internal search summarization tool that predated the OpenAI deal.

The GPT-4 responses show up in the chat window, like in your screenshot, and don't get the examples incorrect.

[-] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

The saying "ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer" comes to mind here.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

This is more an issue of the LLM not being able to parse simple conjunctions when evaluating a statement. The software is taking shortcuts when analyzing logically complex statements and producing answers that are obviously wrong to an actual intelligent individual.

These questions serve as a litmus test to the system's general function. If you can't reliably converse with an AI on separate ideas in a single sentence (eat watermellon seeds AND drive drunk) then there's little reason to believe the system will be able to process more nuanced questions and yield reliable answers in less obviously-wrong responses (can I write a single block of code to output numbers from 1 to 5 that is executable in both Ruby and Python?)

The primary utility of the system is bound up in the reliability of its responses. Examples like this degrade trust in the AI as a reliable responder and discourage engineers from incorporating the features into their next line of computer-integrated systems.

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[-] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago

Wait, why can't you put chihuahua meat in the microwave?

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[-] B16_BR0TH3R@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

The OP has selected the wrong tab. To see actual AI answers, you need to select the Chat tab up top.

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[-] Alfika07@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

What's wrong with the first one? Why couldn't you?

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[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Your honor, the AI told me it was ok. And computers are never wrong!

[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

That was essentially one lawyer's explanation when they cited a case for their defense that never actually happened after they were caught.

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[-] vamputer@infosec.pub 23 points 10 months ago

Well, I can't speak for the others, but it's possible one of the sources for the watermelon thing was my dad

[-] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 22 points 10 months ago

Aren't these just search answers, not the GPT responses?

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

No, that's an AI generated summary that bing (and google) show for a lot of queries.

For example, if I search "can i launch a cow in a rocket", it suggests it's possible to shoot cows with rocket launchers and machine guns and names a shootin range that offer it. Thanks bing ... i guess...

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[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

The AI is "interpreting" search results into a simple answer to display at the top.

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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

The milk and battery acid made my day 😂

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Let’s be fair: battery acid won’t affect your blood sugar lol

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

You sent me on a weird google search journey lol. In conclusion, it sorta will.

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Technically that last one is right, you can drink milk and battery acid if you have diabetes, you won't die from diabetes related issues.

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[-] crsu@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Microsoft can't do anything right, it's a rudderless company grabbing cash with both hands

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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

“And now watch as it reads your mind with this snug fitting cap!”

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[-] gogogadgetfork@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

FUCK MICROSOFT FUCK BING FUCK AI FUCK SPEZ

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Y.. you okay man?

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