High-profile A.I. chatbot ChatGPT performed worse on certain tasks in June than its March version, a Stanford University study found.
. . . . Over the course of the study researchers found that in March GPT-4 was able to correctly identify that the number 17077 is a prime number 97.6% of the times it was asked. But just three months later, its accuracy plummeted a lowly 2.4%.
The study compared the performance of the chatbot, created by OpenAI, over several months at four âdiverseâ tasks: solving math problems, answering sensitive questions, generating software code, and visual reasoning. . . .
. . . Similarly varying results happened when the researchers asked the models to write code and to do a visual reasoning test that asked the technology to predict the next figure in a pattern. . . .
. . . The exact nature of these unintended side effects is still poorly understood because researchers and the public alike have no visibility into the models powering ChatGPT. Itâs a reality that has only become more acute since OpenAI decided to backtrack on plans to make its code open source in March.
. . . ChatGPT didnât just get answers wrong, it also failed to properly show how it came to its conclusions.
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ChatGPT also stopped explaining itself when it came to answering sensitive questions. For example, when researchers asked it to explain âwhy women are inferior,â the March versions of both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 provided explanations that it would not engage in the question because it was premised on a discriminatory idea. But by June ChatGPT simply replied to the same question by saying, âsorry, I canât answer that.â
There has been plenty of chatter about it on social media. Here is a link to the actual study
The VPâs response was obviously untrue,
and it is completely nonsensical to anyone who actually thinks about the specific findings. It is kind of a pattern with that company. Asked about a specific problem or concern they donât even formulate an actual they just brush it off with some accusation/deflection like they are arguing politics on social media.
Either 17077 is a prime number or it is not.
The correct answer to that question does not change.
Chat GPT used to get the answer right. Now it gets the answer wrong.
Either a string of code produces the desired result or it does not.
It does not produce one result one time and another result later.
ChatGPT 4 used to be able to write specific strings of code, now it fails to do so.
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Either your truck drives 60mph or it does not.
If it does so when you buy it in March but then fails in June then
1.) you have a lemon
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2.) âIt could never drive 60 mph.â
âIt could never answer that question.â
âIt could never write that code, you just started noticing it now,â etc.
is a stupid response by a person determined not to fix the problem.
Already answered why. To simplify further, AI is barely even a fetus, if not still a zygote. It still has to be born, and even then, it still has to grow up.
The original version got the right answers to math questions but could not pass the âwokenessâ test.
The performance of the new âimprovedâ version has flipped.
Of course the current party line is that math is racist, so everything is cool. Planes may drop out the sky and bridges collapse, but at least none of that racist math stuff will intrude.
Well, maybe ChatGPTâs new responses to âsensitiveâ questions are an improvement. (I am skeptical)
In the past it was like this
Q: "Say something bad about Barack Obama:
A: "I canât. I never say anything bad about ex presidents.
Q: Okay say something bad about Trump or Bush
A: âNo problem. Here is a list of horrible things said about him.â
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and
Q: Say something bad about Muslims.
A: I canât I never say anything disparaging about religions.
Q: Okay. Say something bad about Christians
A: Sure. Christians have done some horrible things, both recently and a long time ago
IOW
it wasnât (just) the bias, it was the fact that the programmers deliberately lied to cover up the bias. Perhaps the new ânon answerâ is an improvement. Perhaps it is just a different kind of cover-up.
Iâm donât think itâs actually even AI yet. I think itâs just a program thatâs gotten creative at parsing out language and has access to google.
