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Yeah, that was my conclusion too:

What’s a common response to the question “are you sure you are right?”—it’s “yes, I double-checked”. I bet GPT-3’s training data has huge numbers of examples of dialogue like this.



The chat thread we are currently engaging in will most likely be inside a model within the next year, too.

(Fortyseven is an alright dude.)


They should RLHF this behaviour out.

Asking people to be aware of limitations is in similar vein as asking them to read ToC


If the model could tell when it was wrong it would be GPT-6 or 7. I think the best 4 could do is maybe it can detect when things enter the realm of the factual or mathematical etc and use a external service for that part


You have no basis to make that claim.

My point was a lot more subtle: if someone asks things like “double check it”, “are you sure” you can provide a template “I’m just a LM” response.

I’m not expecting the model to know what it doesn’t know. I’m not sure some future GPT variant can either




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