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GPT-4 with Matt Browne

Embrace The Void

CHAPTER

How to Get an AI to Say, I Don't Know About Something

Mike Hall: In my experience, it'll give you kind of like a vague wishy washy answer. It does seem like it's really hardwired to like pull against the urge to say, I don't know in favor of giving some information that's useful. So it's amazing. Yeah, I suspect it's not a fundamental problem. And I think that if you did kind of ask it explicitly, it's a good test. Actually get it to reflect and go, okay, how confident are you about that answer? I think you'll see a lot of variation. But for it to acknowledge that it lacks information might be a kind of unique ability, even if it's not

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