No it doesn’t; it isn’t an intelligence, it’s a token generator based on patterns in the inputs it was trained on (and those are explanations and answers, not millions of people writing “I don’t know”).
Right, but it may be a fixable problem, even under the circumstances. These token generators have vast databases at their disposal and have crawled the entire public-facing internet. They should be able to assign confidence values to their drafts/statements, and reject low-confidence drafts/statements before putting them in front of users. They could do this by fact-checking their drafts in an adversarial way.
For instance, a cursory check of isfdb.org would have given ChatGPT better information than I was provided with.
No it doesn’t; it isn’t an intelligence, it’s a token generator based on patterns in the inputs it was trained on (and those are explanations and answers, not millions of people writing “I don’t know”).