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yeah, it gives you the answer it thinks you want based on your prompts.
I'd be interested to see what prompts they used to, uh, prompt this response.
I'm not attacking you but we really need to figure out how we use language to accurately describe what these programs are doing.
They are outputting a highly likely sequence of words that fit the type of output from their training data that matches the input.
They are fancy autocomplete.
Oh, I know. My comment was more about how we tend to anthropomorphize this stuff and give these models traits they don't possess.