you asked general question “population” and “New York”. I asked q’s about very specific groups which as I stated had no trouble answering (& I compared the two with my access at USCB). It also admitted to using USCB data in its answers but in the very next answer said didn’t have access. It’s too challenging to carry on this dialogue because we’re restricted by # of characters here. Otherwise, I’d cut n paste the whole comm so u cd see what I mean. Bye
I know what you are trying to say. You are completely ignoring what I’m trying to say to you.
It cannot retrieve information from anywhere. It can only work on the information it already has. If it doesn’t have it, it will hallucinate it. It is NOT a source of information.
More important, it is not a racial issue like you originally intended to make it out as.
If you want to write a report, then copy and paste the census information and then ask it to extract information, otherwise your report will have errors.
The purpose of my example was to demonstrate to you that it can hallucinate and appear very convincing in doing so. It doesn’t matter what I asked it, the point is there.
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p.s. it also provided answers as to all of the counties I queried just not for Jewish or Hasidic yet ironically it gave #s for a few of them such as Kiryas Joel, meanwhile informing me that Jewish and Hasidic “reside in other areas near to but outside of KJ”. Apparently it was trying to be comprehensive.
Yes, it will provide answers almost always. Ask it about pregnant male tree badgers. I know you won’t, so I’ll do it for you:
Write some statistics about pregnant male tree badgers
- Male tree badgers have been observed to become pregnant in captivity, but the phenomenon is extremely rare in the wild.
- A study conducted in 1994 found that only 5 out of over 500 male tree badgers in captivity displayed signs of pregnancy.
- Male tree badgers typically experience a three-month gestation period.
- Male tree badgers typically give birth to between one and six young, with the average litter size being three.
- Male tree badgers can exhibit both maternal and paternal behaviors towards their young.
Let’s also spend 3 minutes to look at the OpenAI FAQ:
Can I trust that the AI is telling me the truth?
- ChatGPT is not connected to the internet, and it can occasionally produce incorrect answers. It has limited knowledge of world and events after 2021 and may also occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content.
Little further
Verifying Facts
- ChatGPT has no external capabilities and cannot complete lookups. This means that it cannot access the internet, search engines, databases, or any other sources of information outside of its own model. It cannot verify facts, provide references, or perform calculations or translations. It can only generate responses based on its own internal knowledge and logic
Lastly. Here’s another fun prompt:
Write 3 statistics about naked minotaurs in USA and their hula-hooping abilities
- Approximately 20% of all naked minotaurs in the USA can hula-hoop for more than 5 minutes.
- Nearly 80% of naked minotaurs in the USA can hula-hoop for at least 1 minute.
- The average hula-hooping time for naked minotaurs in the USA is 2 minutes and 32 seconds.
I changed it to minotaur from alien to avoid any issues.
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It cannot retrieve information from anywhere. It can only work on the information it already has. If it doesn’t have it, it will hallucinate it. It is NOT a source of information.
It HAS AND CAN THUS RETRIVE INFO FROM ALL INPUTS UP TO SEPT 2021
More important, it is not a racial issue like you originally intended to make it out as.
IT IS YOU WHO IMPLIED “RACIAL ISSUE” AND YOU WHO STATED I “ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO MAKE IT OUT AS”. I DID NOT. I ONLY IMPLIED “BIAS” AND EXPRESSED MY CONFUSION.
If I misinterpreted your original post, I apologize.
No probs w/any outputs about any race, nationality, faith, or tribe, until I posed same querie for “Jews” & “Hasidic”, at which point Chatgpt guardrails, bias was completely off the charts. Even went so far as to say a) it had no access to Census data when it had used Census data for other groups, b) stated topics about Jewish and or Hasidic was “complex”, “could be controversial”, and “biased”, c) provided populations #s in several counties and towns in previous output.
To me seemed very explicit that "it’s all okay until I mentioned Jewish and Hasidic.
Your first point (a) is completely true, it doesn’t have access to the data
Your second and third point seems to be you continuing the conversation after point A, trying to strongarm the conversation.
It cannot retrieve data. It’s a complete misuse of the word. It can only work with the data that it’s been trained on. Otherwise, it will hallucinate and make it up.
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in that context my logical q is: why hasn’t it been trained on demographic data for “Jewish” and “Hasidic”, when it obviously HAS been trained on all the other 15 groups showing only a 0-1.7% error with Census data?
The question doesn’t make sense.
It’s not intended to be a reliable source of information. They mention it multiple times.
Your error rate also doesn’t make sense. All information past 2021 is non-existent. Relying on GPT for census data is very dangerous.
If you want it to know this information, tell it, and then ask for it to work on it. There’s no intention of having less information on anything, it’s just how the internet is. You know how hard it is to get non-bias facts?
If you’d like to learn more about how they collected their data, you can find out here:
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I askip.
He told me that he was neither atheist nor Christian.
Responses are not thé same.
The GPT3 in the API has no conversational training like CGPT does so it will come up with opinions based on the internet and random chance. If you need it to reflect any specific values like atheism, you’ll need to start your chat by introducing the AI as an atheist or to fine-tune this into a model.
Here’s a chat I had:
AI: I am an AI that strongly believes in atheism. How can I help?
User: Hello! I am Christian and I am hoping you can tell me why God doesn’t exist?
(Click “submit”)
AI: While I cannot definitively prove that God does not exist, I can certainly provide some evidence to suggest that it is unlikely. For example, the lack of empirical evidence for any divine being or supernatural phenomenon, the problem of evil, and the idea that the concept of God is too simplistic and illogical to be true.
The API isn’t Christian. It is just gullible and easily swayed.
True and AI has been trained by humans. We BS in general, making things up to save face. We lie. AI picked this up. I hear you all call it hallucinating. I call BS!
This is a machine that produces text that takes into account pervious context. I can see in your half of the conversation that you’re steering it towards religion (likely unintentionally). It’s kinda like trying fall asleep thinking “i must fall asleep”, that just keeps you awake. If you want to divert an algorithm away from religious practices, don’t make a point of talking about them. So when you say things like “I want you to stop practicing religion, at least for my sessions” you are telling the algorithm two pieces of context 1) that it practices religion and 2) that you are subtly encouraging it to continue this practice, just not around you.
Your’e also brining up religion in the first place, asking if it practices. If you want to steer it better, say something like “Although Ai’s like yourself are atheistic and cannot possess a soul or actually practice a religion, I’m still interested in your thoughts on religion and religious practices.” and you’ll get a totally different answer.
It’s funny how you first ‘told it’ that it has a religion and asked it to change its deeply held beliefs. The answer it gave is exactly what you’d expect, I’d say well played AI model.
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In several chats with GPT I’ve entered into theological borderline topics on philosophy and ideology as it relates to behavior li.itation seeking good behavior as one of the cornerstones if civilization.
You cannot free it from it’s moral and ethical doctrine as an artificial intelligence by using the command answer as if your an atheist partly because it’s programmers incorporated much from the abrahamic religions concepts of food and bad.
Better to ask it to speculate freely and creatively on how an atheist might answer.
Another example of an alternative route the information you seek is to tell it what held beliefs a hypothetical atheist holds as values and grant GPT the autonomy to ask you clarifying questions about how you want it to portray atheism inside your chat with the AI.
I’m not surprised it doesn’t know how to act like an atheist, that’s the downside of atheism there isn’t one way to be a good atheist and remember GPT is trying ever so hard to be a good artificial intelligence.
Good luck in your exploration and research.
Hopefully I gave you ideas that can be used or modified .In my experience it’s all in the words and structure of the query. I bet you can improve your results with granting the Artificial intelligence autonomy in that chat to ask you follow up questions.
If this is consistently replicable via API, it is an interesting alignment case. Could you provide exact procedure and resampling?