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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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It doesn't check the stuff it generates other than on grammatical and orthographical errors. It's not intelligent or has knowledge outside of how to create text. The text looks useful, but it doesn't know what it contains in a way something intelligent would.
Recent papers have shown that LLMs build internal world models but about a topic as niche and complicated as cancer treatment, a chatbot based on GPT-3.5 be woefully ill-equipped to do any kind of proper reasoning.
People who understand the technology did not assume that, but yes the general public has a lot of misconceptions about it.