An anonymous reader cites a report from Ars Technica. On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected output from OpenAI's AI assistants, with the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub posting posts about the AI assistant “having a stroke,” “going crazy,” “rambling,” and “lost.” There was a flood of reports saying, “I did it.'' While OpenAI is aware of this issue and working on a fix, this experience is a sign of how some people perceive malfunctions in large language models designed to mimic human-like output. It serves as a notable example of what you are doing. ChatGPT is not alive and we don't want to lose it, but pulling a human metaphor (called “anthropomorphism”) is the easiest way to explain the unexpected outputs we're seeing from our AI models. It seems that. OpenAI does not share exactly how his ChatGPT works under the hood, so we are forced to use these terms. The underlying large-scale language model acts like a black box.
In a post about the ChatGPT bug, Reddit user z3ldafitzgerald wrote, “I had the exact same feeling. Like watching someone slowly lose their mind due to mental illness or dementia.” “This is the first time I've ever been truly horrified by something AI-related.” Some users began to question their own sanity. “What happened here? I asked my dog if I could give him Cheerios and he started saying something that made no sense and kept doing it. Is this normal? And also… What is the “deeper story” in? ” If you read the series of screenshots below, you will see that ChatGPT's output is degraded in an unexpected way. […]
So far, ChatGPT's temperature has been set too high (temperature is a property of the AI that determines how far the LLM deviates from its most likely output) and past context (history) is suddenly lost. I've seen experts speculate that this could cause problems. Or, OpenAI may be testing a new version of GPT-4 Turbo (the AI model that powers the subscription version of ChatGPT) that contains unexpected bugs. It could also be a bug in a side feature, such as a recently introduced “memory” feature.