The most important lesson for users of AI chatbots

The most important lesson I can give you about AI chatbots.

They don't work how you think they do.

Chatbots like ChatGPT run on probability algorithms layered on top of each other. In practice this means that the same AI will generate different answers for exactly the same question.

Below you can see that ChatGPT doing exactly this for me.

• https://bit.ly/sheep1chatgpt
• https://bit.ly/sheep2chatgpt
• https://bit.ly/sheep3chatgpt
• https://bit.ly/sheep4chatgpt

Sheep descriptions are benign, but it's easy to see how something like this could get dangerous quite quickly for users who do not understand its limitations.

It's the language equivalent of the AI image generating programs. No matter how detailed the prompt question, the result will vary each time.

If someone tells you the AI knows best, tell them to ask it the same thing four times and then come back to you.

Very happy to discuss this in more detail for anyone who needs more information.

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