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ChatGPT in Shambles

After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist

So I decided this morning to give the latest (unpaid) version of ChatGPT a whirl, asking to make it some basic tables, in hopes of putting its newfound skills to work. As the system spat out the first few lines of a neatly formatted table on income and population in the United States, apparently responsive to my question, I started to wonder, “Have I been unfair to Generative AI?”. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

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