Ignorance is not bliss for ChatGPT | Letters
by Guardian Staff from Science | The Guardian on (#6EMGV)
Geoff Renshaw has realised that the chatbot can't say I don't know', Tom Brown thinks it has been reading too much Kafka
From Elif Batuman's experience with ChatGPT, it seems that artificial intelligence possesses one very human characteristic: a deep reluctance to confess to ignorance (Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote, 5 September).
Many, many times I have found that instead of simply and candidly replying I don't know" to my question, my human respondent will answer a nominally similar but significantly different question, often at great length.
Geoff Renshaw
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire