{"id":6614,"date":"2023-05-04T04:06:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2023-05-04T04:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:06:53","slug":"chatgpt-or-chatgepetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/2023\/05\/04\/chatgpt-or-chatgepetto\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT or ChatGepetto ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inspired by the example <\/a>of my esteemed colleague Benjamin Voyer<\/a>, I did the following experiment: ask ChatGPT<\/a> to write my biography, Wikipedia style. Like Ben Voyer, I was also very surprised by the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As regards form, it is perfect<\/strong>. It also shows that language doesn’t matter: the same query, in French or in English, gives exactly the same text. In other words, ChatGPT seems to have an internal language, understood only by him\/her, which serves as a common basis for responses in different languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the substance is a different matter<\/strong>. The following table gives a visual understanding of what I mean:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To build up on my esteemed colleague’s analysis<\/a>, it’s not as if this information were hard to find: the vast majority of it is public, present on many sites, and even if I’m not present on wikipedia<\/a> (quite normal, IMO), there is clearly enough public data to write a proper wikipedia entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With such a list of errors, it is surprising that ChatGPT has correctly identified my field of activity. The Augur in Information (AI) says \u00ab\u00a0French economist and finance professor\u00a0\u00bb: I’m not an economist, but hey, it’s at least reassuring not to have been classified as a \u00ab\u00a0Youtube influencer\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0septic tank drainer\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a conclusion to this little exercise, a fundamental observation: while ChatGPT can be very accurate (and helpful) when asked pragmatic questions – for example about how to use an Excel function \u2013 it is not the same when it comes to news or people. It is not a search engine, it is a conversational assistant. In short, don’t be surprised if it tells you fairy tales\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS: I suggest you do this experiment on your own name. You can even publish the result on social networks with the hashtag #ChatGepetto, we’ll see whether this starts a trend\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inspired by the example of my esteemed colleague Benjamin Voyer, I did the following experiment: ask ChatGPT to write my biography, Wikipedia style. Like Ben Voyer, I was also very surprised by the result. As regards form, it is perfect. … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophethibierge.com\/blogthib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}