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Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi...::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And they're being limited on data to train GPT.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the trained model is already there, you need additional data for further training and newer versions. OpenAI even makes a point that ChatGPT doesn't have direct access to the internet for information and has been trained on data available up until 2021

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And it's not like there is a limit of simple math problems that it can train on even if it wasn't already trained.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That doesn't make any sense to explain degradation. It would explain a stall but not a back track.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly I think the training data is just getting worse too