AI: A Personal (BAD) Experience With ChatGPT

[Old Music Guy]

I thought I would pass this on.
I used ChatGPT to help "authenticate" a 1975 Gretsch Country Gentleman that was for sale. It was "allegedly" autographed by Chet Atkins. It was stupidly cheap for this model and provenance.
To make a *VERY* long story short, I asked VERY definitive questions: Serial number; model number; real or painted f-holes, pick ups, padded back, tuners; etc.
ChatGPT gave very detailed answers with regard to each question I asked. My "assumption" based on these answers were that the guitar in question was a fake.
Then I did my OWN research. From the Gretsch website to verified pictures, and other sources. I concluded that ChatGPT was in error on EVERY POINT!
When I typed in each error, the answer was the same: :"OOPSIE" From the f-holes to the tuners, it got every single answer wrong.
The "conversation" ended with "Is there anything else I can help you with?", and I replied, "Fix yourself!".
For the win: ChatGPT crashed
EDIT: I have the exchange available if anyone is interested. Which I doubt anyone would be.

 

[Amp Mad Scientist]

 

[Seamus OReally]

I had a similar experience with Google’s chatbot. I asked it about something in knew the answer to, and it was not only wrong about everything, it went on at great length.

So I said, “None of that is correct.” And it replied, “oh, I’m so sorry, you’re right… here’s the correct information.” And it created another four paragraphs of pure whacked out hallucinations.

And what I asked it was information readily available on IMDB. I don’t get the rush to burn billions of dollars in VC on this stuff.

 

[C-Grin]

And lawyers and judges are using AI

 

[Don O]

Nvidia stock has been good for us the last 5 years. They make most of the AI hardware and software world wide.

 

[Old Music Guy]

Early on I asked some questions related to high and low pass filters: R values, C values, frequency plots, roll-off, etc. Having worked in R&D for a few decades, I pretty much knew the answers. Nonetheless, I tried it, and of course the responses were dead wrong.
I pointed out the errors and, same as above: "OOPSIE".

 

[SG John]

And lawyers and judges are using AI

As well as engineering students who had lazy enough teachers to not not see they were using AI to get their degrees.

I've been calling them Pretengineers. They couldn't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag, never mind tell you the difference between an UNC and UNF thread.