> I love chatGPT for information lookup (while knowing that it hallucinates)
Hallucinates?
I'd use the term 'bullshits' when it doesn't know the right answer.
This makes it a dangerous thing to trust.
Hallucinates?
I'd use the term 'bullshits' when it doesn't know the right answer.
This makes it a dangerous thing to trust.
It is a greatat summarizing but poor at understanding. It is great at concepts but crap at precision. And every actionable "fact" coming from it needs to be vetted.
The quality of the LLM matters. The better LLMs don't hallucinate as much as the rest. ChatGPT-4 appears to be trained to consult the web when it receives questions for which it's likely to hallucinate, such as questions about hard figures.
Eh? Only a sociopath, when confronted with a question they don't know the answer to, confidently makes something up. The human may not know the answer, but they generally know whether they know the answer or not. The machine does not (of course, it doesn't _know_ anything). You should absolutely trust something less than this far less than the average human.
What? No. Literally fake memories are such a well-known phenomenon the cops will abuse it to generate fake solutions to crimes etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Also there are people for which compulsive lying is a pathological problem, who are definitely not sociopaths, and there are many people who demonstrate the processes to non-pathological/non-clinical levels. People will, indeed, “just make it up” perhaps especially if they don’t really know the answer, because that’s socially embarrassing etc - that’s literally the opposite of sociopathy.
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/compulsive-lying
"Bullshits" implies it knows what it's doing, and can have a positive connotation depending on context.