Body: <p>As far as I understand ChatGPT has been trained on a vast array of data, and it <em>does understand</em> questions; but it seems to never ask. Even if a person would ask clarifying questions (that I assume are in the train set) ChatGPT doesn't, opting instead to invent context or just say &quot;X depends on Y, Z&quot;...</p>
  <p>Not asking questions seems trained into the network, but I am not sure how one would go about training a model not to generate questions in such a way that not even in DAN mode it doesn't. I understand that for toxic language GPT-3 uses human raters to generate a train set and then optimizes for non toxic behavior, but it seems to specific to be used for the general concept of questions.</p>
  
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Comments.CreationDate: 2023-04-12T20:53:32.563Z
Comments.Text: It seems to be asking questions if you guide it to do so
Comments.UserDisplayName: Crantisz
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Comments.CreationDate: 2023-04-12T21:54:30.917Z
Comments.Text: @Crantisz what text did you use to make it ask questions for clarification?
Comments.UserDisplayName: EmmanuelMess
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Comments.CreationDate: 2023-04-13T07:42:15.347Z
Comments.Text: "Guess what I riddled, ask leading questions, I'll answer yes or no"
Comments.UserDisplayName: Crantisz
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Comments.CreationDate: 2023-04-13T23:40:34.657Z
Comments.Text: With DAN I can also use "ask leading questions" for general topics, I will check if I can get it to ask for more information about a request
Comments.UserDisplayName: EmmanuelMess
Tags: <natural-language-processing><chatgpt><natural-language-generation>
Title: Why doesn't ChatGPT ask questions?
UserDisplayName: EmmanuelMess
ThreadText: # Why doesn't ChatGPT ask questions?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-04-12)
  
  As far as I understand ChatGPT has been trained on a vast array of data, and it *does understand* questions; but it seems to never ask. Even if a person would ask clarifying questions (that I assume are in the train set) ChatGPT doesn't, opting instead to invent context or just say "X depends on Y, Z"...
  
  Not asking questions seems trained into the network, but I am not sure how one would go about training a model not to generate questions in such a way that not even in DAN mode it doesn't. I understand that for toxic language GPT-3 uses human raters to generate a train set and then optimizes for non toxic behavior, but it seems to specific to be used for the general concept of questions.
  
  **Tags:** natural-language-processing, chatgpt, natural-language-generation
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It seems to be asking questions if you guide it to do so  
  > **username_0**: @Crantisz what text did you use to make it ask questions for clarification?  
  > **username_1**: "Guess what I riddled, ask leading questions, I'll answer yes or no"  
  > **username_0**: With DAN I can also use "ask leading questions" for general topics, I will check if I can get it to ask for more information about a request  
  
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