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The Limitations of ChatGPT with Emily M. Bender and Casey Fiesler

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Chat GPT Versus Google Search?

Dylan: What I think I took the most notes on during this interview was when we were talking about the topic of chat GPT versus like search engines. It's actually just sort of like this aggregate summation of all the potential truthful and untruthful answers that there could be because it's just scraping this data from the web. And as Emily described a bunch of times in this podcast interview, it's just trying to statistically determine a probability of what words are going to come next. So it doesn't actually know what it is saying. Like people assume that the response to a question that they get that they prompt chat GPT with is like this truthful answer. But in reality

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