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> by reading generated text that is not checked and has the same confident tone whether it's completely made-up or actually correct? I don't get it.

This is a valid point, but it's referring to the state of things as of ~1.5 years ago. The field has evolved a lot, and now you can readily augment LLMs answers with context in the form of validated, sourced and "approved" knowledge.

Is it possible that you are having a visceral reaction to the "cool new tech" without yourself having been exposed to the latest state of that tech? To me your answer seems like a knee-jerk reaction to the "AI hype" but if you look at how things evolved over the past year, there's a clear indication that these issues will get ironed out, and the next iterations will be better in every way. I wonder, at that point, where the goalposts will be moved...

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No, ChatGPT and others still happily make stuff up and miss important details and caveats. The goalpost hasn't moved. The fact that there are specialized LLMs that can fact check (supposedly) doesn't help the most popular ones which can't.

Have you tried Claude.ai. In my experience on computer science topics, the LLMs are very good. Because they have been trained on a vast amount of information online. I just had a nice conversation about mutexes and semaphores with claude and was able to finally grasp what they were.

I do not know if this is the case for example for mathematics or sciences.

>To me your answer seems like a knee-jerk reaction to the "AI hype" but if you look at how things evolved over the past year

It's not a kneejerk traction, like you said it's been 2 years of nonstop AI hype. I have used every chatbot model from openAI (3.5, 4, 4o, even o1) and a few from other companies as well. I've used code copilot tools. I've yet never not been disappointed.

> there's a clear indication that these issues will get ironed out, and the next iterations will be better in every way

On the contrary, there's NO indication of meaningful progress since the release of GPT 3.5. There's incremental progress, sure, as models get larger and larger and things get tweaked and perfected, but NO breakthrough and NO indication of an imminent one. Everything points to the fact that the current SotA, more or less, is at good as it gets with the transformer model.

> now you can readily augment LLMs answers with context in the form of validated, sourced and "approved" knowledge.

Not sure what you mean by this

Is it possible you have not used ChatGPT recently?

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