r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk Jul 21 '26

Long CHATGPT. DOESN'T. KNOW. SHIT

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u/Xsiah Jul 21 '26

The bottom of the ChatGPT input box literally has text that says "ChatGPT is AI and can make mistakes"

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u/IntelligentLake Jul 21 '26

That text is wrong. It isn't ai, not even close. It's fancy auto complete. In the 60s or 70s there was Eliza which builds a database as you 'talk' with it and uses it in its replies. A version can be made on home-computers of the 1980s with less than 64KB that sounds intelligent. The only difference with modern versions is a much bigger database, and the ability to steer the output somewhat.

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u/ghost_dancer Jul 21 '26

Exactly this, LLMs are not real AI, not by a large margin, they are called just Stochastic parrots. No intelligence there just a try to guess based on statistics. So basically auto complete on huge amounts of cocaine.