Category Artificial Intelligence

Off the cuff, I’ll sometimes ask ChatGPT questions that come to mind. There need be no rhyme or reason to the questions I pose. But sometimes ChatGPT provides responses that I find interesting and worth sharing. I’ll keep adding to…

Several months back, someone emailed me the following: I nominate Sam Harris for YouTube’s prize for “Person with the Best One-Liner Joke except for the fact that he was being serious,” for his remark in a 2012 speech: “Tonight, I…

Even with the rise of large language models such as ChatGPT in the last year, I was still convinced that a mode of reasoning known as inference to the best explanation (abbreviated IBE) was not within the competence of artificial…

A few months back I published on this blog two pieces (see here and here) where I was able to break ChatGPT4 (hereafter just ChatGPT). Tonight I revisited some of the types of challenges I posed to it in the…

Here’s a sequence of numbers: 2,4,6,8,10,12,… What’s the next number in the sequence? Obviously 14. That one was simple. But what if we make finding the pattern more difficult? It turns out ChatGPT has serious difficulties with numerical patterns. The…

I’ve finally started playing around with Google Bard. With self-referential sentences, it seems even more at sea than ChatGPT. Here is an exchange from 5/18/23: Me: Consider the following six sentences: This is the first sentence. Ignore this sentence. Why…

A concern about ChatGPT is that its training data may include a lot of information that is false or biased. As one colleague of mine puts it, “No one is curating the internet.” It might seem, then, that endless duplication…

Over the last several months I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, first version 3 and now version 4. It’s impressive and it can answer many questions accurately (though sometimes it just makes stuff up). One problem it has consistently displayed, and…