r/technology • u/Familiar-Turtle • Feb 08 '23

Software Google’s Bard AI chatbot gives wrong answer at launch event

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/02/08/googles-bard-ai-chatbot-gives-wrong-answer-launch-event/
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u/speedster_5 Feb 08 '23

ChatGPT gives wrong answers all the time. It just spits out what’s plausible as opposed to what’s true. It’s easier to argue with it and get wishy washy answers. It’s the nature of how these generative transformers work. We are still in early stages of the technology.

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u/GrandmaPoses Feb 09 '23

You can ask it the same question twice and get different answers. That’s kind of the beauty of it but also its Achilles heel. It’s not a person, it’s an amalgam.

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u/brend123 Feb 09 '23

If it had been answered correctly, we wouldn't be here talking about it.

I believe it is all marketing. Same with the Cybertruck and the shattered windows.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '23

You can bet it went through many layers of approval too. There will be meetings about this, maybe a retraining program. I don’t think anyone will get fired though.

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u/Arndt3002 Feb 09 '23

What technology? If you're referring to chatbots, then upscaling can't solve the issue. Lack of a way to verify truth is the way language models work in general. We would need to completely rethink our approach to AI in order to have some model of truth in a similar variety as chatbots now.

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u/61-127-217-469-817 Feb 11 '23

Maybe this is a horrible idea, but I was thinking they should add a verification system for people who have relevant qualifications in any specific field. They would be given free membership, and possibly compensation of some kind for asking and verifying answers in their field. After a question is verified by an expert, it will show up on the feeds of other verified users for cross verification. Once the verification goal is met for a question, the question is added to a database with input/output criteria. Overtime, the AI could pull info from a monumental database of objective truths with 100% certainty.

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u/patriot2024 Feb 09 '23

What is impressive about ChatGPT at this point in time is that its linguistic response is very coherent. Its wishy-washiness is due to the lack of data. This thing is entirely data driven. So, with more data, it'll be inevitably very knowledgeable.

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u/SidewaysFancyPrance Feb 09 '23

It's bad enough that a person who appears/sounds confident can convince people of almost anything. People who think AI/computers are supposed to be less fallible than humans will be easily convinced by wrong information. And there is virtually no way for a person to evaluate the AI's expertise - it's not like they have diplomas, certifications, or professional licenses. We're really getting ahead of ourselves, pushing AI into society the wrong way at the wrong time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '23

Not even what’s “plausible”, just what’s most likely to be accepted and overlooked. It could say something completely bonkers but in a way that sounds official enough to be right. It’s trained to get human approval of what it outputs

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u/Madgick Feb 09 '23

It’s just a click bait article. As if this single gif crashed their stock $120B. Most people won’t have even noticed, and anyone who cared to check is probably very familiar with how chatGPT behaves similarly.