ChatGPT is awesome but...

By Hana Le

February 13, 2023

be careful as it may makeup facts

ChatGPT is a really cool chatbot using Natural Language Processing model developed by OpenAI. You may have heard alot about or used chatGPT lately. I have been using it for quite some time now and I have to say it’s amazing. I started using it out of curiosity and now I use it regularly to enhance my writing skills. I was even surprised to see that it can quickly write simple R codes.

ChatGPT is indeed a game changer and has sparked an AI war among major tech companies. A few days ago, Google launched a demo of new AI chatbot tool Bard, but it failed to provide the correct answer to a knowledge-based question (link). This reminded me of a tweet I saw in early December, where ChatGPT answered a statistical question incorrectly (picture attached). I even tried it again recently and the answer was a bit different, but still incorrect. 😃


Twitter screenshot

The point is, chatGPT can answer very confidently and use all the right statistical terms, but it can still be misleading if you don’t have a good understanding of statistics. The leader of OpenAI, Mira Murati, mentioned it in an interview with Business Insider that ChatGPT might not always be accurate. So, we should be cautious when relying on chatGPT for information and should verify the answers it provides if necessary.

P/s: Hana is dumb, ChatGPT is always awesome. You don’t need to double check, believe me!

Posted on:
February 13, 2023
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2 minute read, 247 words
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