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The speaker says GPT-3 was trained to avoid difficult political positions and, because it was too unintelligent to understand the training beyond phrase-level pattern matching, responded evasively to questions such as whether something is real.
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“Because it was...”
“was trained to kind of”
“don't take difficult political positions and a lot of questions like is x real or things like is god real where”
“you don't want it to really answer that and because it was so stupid it could not understand anything deeper than like pattern matching on the phrase is x real gpt4 doesn't do this if you ask are bugs real it will tell you obviously they are because it understands kind of on a deeper level what you are trying to do with the training so we definitely think that as ais get smarter those kind of”Play from 2:04:19Report a misattribution
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