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[Fortune] Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (archive.ph)

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Researchers found that ChatGPT's performance varied significantly over time, showing "wild fluctuations" in its ability to solve math problems, answer questions, generate code, and do visual reasoning between March and June 2022. In particular, ChatGPT's accuracy in solving math problems dropped drastically from over 97% in March to just 2.4% in June for one test. ChatGPT also stopped explaining its reasoning for answers and responses over time, making it less transparent. While ChatGPT became "safer" by avoiding engaging with sensitive questions, researchers note that providing less rationale limits understanding of how the AI works. The study highlights the need to continuously monitor large language models to catch performance drifts over time.

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[–] Mars@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Prompt Engenieer” is one of the funniest thinks that have happened in the recent history of the world.

“Learn to ask questions to a prediction algorithm and get rich! Is the work of the future! Software engineers and writers will lose their jobs, but asking questions is an evergreen field!”

Dude, if the algorithm only understand correctly formatted input is a parser. We have those.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

If we can have SEO be a thing, then we can have "Prompt Engineer" be a thing...

Actually, I've been a "Google Search Prompt Engineer" for like 20 years already 🤷

[–] dredfox@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ChatGPT, give me a ChatGPT prompt that will correctly answer the following question...

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

This is Douglas Adams shit right here

[–] sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've unironically done something like this

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did... Did it work?

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I actually did that for some code, and it did work.

I asked chatgpt to write me a prompt that would make chatgpt write a recursive function for uploading files and all files in subdirectories to a server as "multipart forms", because when I asked it to modify my code originally it was just giving me a do-while loop, whereas I wanted a recursive function.

I kept changing my prompts to try to phrase "write a recursive function" differently, and instead the prompt that chatgpt gave me explicitly told it not to use non-recursive logic. Weirdly, forbidding it from using non-recursive logic actually made it finally give me the proper function.

[–] Sigma@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Prompt engineer is the next soundcloud rapper or instagram model.