Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social
Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:
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DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
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Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.
This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:
“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”
Is it really always giving you that answer? What if you’re in a different mode? There is no 2 in the binary system. You could already have pressed “3 +” beforehand, so the result will be 7.
I see you point from a technical point of view. It’s deterministic. But from a more hypothetical way I see LLMs as some kind of complex calculator for language.