Re: What to do, if chatgpt gives a wrong answer

On 10/13/25 10:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> ft <ml@ft-c.de> writes:
>> When I ask ChatGPT a question [...] I very often get the wrong answer.
> 
> Don't do that, then.
> 
> Artificial intelligence exists only in science fiction.  ChatGPT is not
> artificial intelligence, it is a deterministic computer program that
> uses a large statistical model of natural language to complete text
> submitted to it.  Since it has been trained on a corpus that includes
> many examples of questions followed by answers, when prompted with a
> question, it will produce something that has the shape of an answer, but
> absolutely no effort has gone into ensuring that the answer is correct,
> nor does anyone involved have any idea how to even begin doing that.

Spotted this gem on another mailing list recently ..

All that *ANY* LLM  can provide here is a statistically 
less-improbable-than-random stream of words that may or may not include 
any statements of true facts, uninfluenced by anything resembling knowledge.

	Michael