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[–] mindbleach 1 points 2 days ago

This specific task, picking up info from a text, is broadly similar to an early illustrative fuckup: acronyms. GPT3-ish struggled to get acronyms right when it was told to write fiction. It'd make up the name of some institution or company, and then drop a parenthetical which almost matched those initial letters. Something like "meanwhile, the Bureau of Silly Names (BNS) says..."

It's a simple task. The machine knows what a right answer looks like. But it's only guessing, and if it guesses wrong, it goes 'oh well' and plows ahead.