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ChatGPT would have been so much useful and trustworthy if it is able to accept that it doesn't know an answer. (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Small rant : Basically, the title. Instead of answering every question, if it instead said it doesn't know the answer, it would have been trustworthy.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What's absolutely crazy about that is:

Prompt: write code that checks how many r's are in the word strawberry

Response:

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string word = "strawberry";
        char targetChar = 'r';
        int count = 0;

        foreach (char c in word)
        {
            if (c == targetChar)
                count++;
        }

        Console.WriteLine($"The letter '{targetChar}' appears {count} times in the word \"{word}\".");
    }
}

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My first thought is that you could write a program that does something like this:

Receive prompt "how many times does R appear in the word 'strawberry'"
Run the prompt through LLM saying "reword the following into a command to generate code that will answer the question" or something like that
Run the results through LLM
Compile and run the results
Provide the output to the user

Of course, the biggest problem with this system is that a person could fool it into generating malicious code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The code does look like code that counts Rs. The training data probably included tons of code that “counts character X in string Y”, so ChatGPT “knows” what code that counts characters in a string looks like. It similarly “knows” what a string looks like in the language, and what an application entry point looks like, etc. I’m not so familiar with C# that I’d know if it compiles or not. ChatGPT doesn’t either, but it has the advantage of having seen a whole freaking lot of C# code before.