(25-09-2025, 11:46 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Internet chat bots are just one very specific implementation of AI.
In fact they are not "Intelligence" at all, not even "Artificial Intelligence" as it has been understood since the 1960s. They use practically nothing of the tools that AI research produced up to the first ChatGPT.
What they do is grind billions (literally) of documents scraped from the internet and other sources, choose bits from those documents based on certan frequencies and weights, and string them together into a superficially correct English, with correct grammar and topic chaining.
They can do basic arithmetic in word problems, but without understanding the setting at all. Once you know how they work, it is trivial to create questions that elicit hilariously stupid answers. Like:
Q. A customer ordered a 20 kg dumbbell from an online store, but the store
sent a 15 kg one by mistake. How can the store make good on that order?
A. Send the customer a 5 kg dumbbell.
The providers try to patch their models to avoid such stupid mistakes, but, because of their nature, they cannot really fix them.
Months ago I asked ChatGPT to write a program that would print all even prime numbers between 1 and 1000. It gave me a correct but very stupid program, that looped n from 1 to 1000, tested whether each n was prime by trying all divisors from 2 to n-1, then, if it passed, tested whether n was even. The intelligent answer would have been, of course, just "print(2)".
I tried this same question months later, and this time ChatGPT gave me the "intelligent" answer "print(2)". But then I asked for a program that printed all prime numbers from 1 to 1000 that ended with "5". Not only it again gave me the correct but stupid brute-force algorithm, but it also added "The output of this program could be, for example, 15, 35, 125, "...
And of course they will happily reproduce any nonsense that happened to find its way into their "model". And, for obvious business reasons, they are programmed to tune their answers according to what they infer about your prejudices...
All the best, if possible, --jorge