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Ask HN: Do anyone knows why ChatGPT “talks” about GPT-3.5?

2 pointsby byschiiover 1 year ago
I was trying to ask ChatGPT some advice on how to engineer my prompts (maybe its futile, but nevermind, that is not the point), hit &#x27;enter&#x27; and noticed that the response mentioned GPT-3.5 [1]. When trying to dig deeper ChatGPT wrote that &lt;&lt;I mentioned &quot;GPT-3.5&quot; based on the phrasing used in your initial question, but it appears that there may have been a misunderstanding or a mix-up in terminology.&gt;&gt; In a &quot;fresh&quot; chat, any knowledge of GPT-3.5 is denied [2].<p>Maybe every once in a while, GPT gets fed with wikipedia? Maybe the &quot;.5&quot; came out at random? (actually just the &quot;.&quot; token was random and the &quot;5&quot; followed) Is this considered an hallucination?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;630926a7-388d-4762-8ee2-6bce24b1c7e3 (note that i missed a final &#x27;is&#x27; in my question)<p>[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;f9b9e6c1-89db-4295-83c4-af12972c3ef1<p>[3] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GPT-3#GPT-3.5

2 comments

byschiiover 1 year ago
I tried to repeat the &quot;experiment&quot;, now GPT-4 has appeared. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;08ae3a28-4f30-4e8c-a3cb-ac94808ed081" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;08ae3a28-4f30-4e8c-a3cb-ac9480...</a>
recrudesceover 1 year ago
ChatGPT&#x27;s model is called &quot;gpt-3.5-turbo&quot;.