The Internet being mostly broken at this point is driving me a little insane, and I can’t believe that people who have the power to keep a functioning search engine for themselves wouldn’t go ahead and do it.
I wonder about this every time I see people(?) crowing about how amazing AI is. Like, is there some secret useful AI out there that plebs like me don’t get to use? Because otherwise, huh?
It is also not good at finding songs where you only (mis)remember some lyrics, but it will confidently invent a fake song.
It also makes up citations.
I wish it was better at expressing how likely its answer is to be true.
Yeah. The confabulation/hallucination thing is a real issue.
OpenAI had some good research a few months ago that laid a lot of the blame on reinforcement learning that only rewards having the right answer vs correctly saying “I don’t know.” So they’re basically trained like taking tests where it’s always better to guess the answer than not provide an answer.
But this leads to being full of shit when not knowing an answer or being more likely to make up an answer than say there isn’t one when what’s being asked is impossible.