Ignorance is not bliss for ChatGPT | Letters

Geoff Renshaw has realised that the chatbot can ’t say ‘I don’t know’,Tom Brown thinks it has been reading too much KafkaFrom Elif Batuman ’s experience with ChatGPT, it seems that artificial intelligence possesses one very human characteristic: a deep reluctance to confess to ignorance (Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote, 5 September).Many, many times I have found that instead of simply and candidly replying “I don’t know” to my question, my human respondent will answer a nominally similar but significantly different question, often at great length.Geoff RenshawLeamington Spa, WarwickshireContinue reading...
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