Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service
I'm curious -- does anyone know of ML directions that could add any kind of factual confidence level to ChatGPT and similar?<p>We all know now that ChatGPT is just autocomplete on steroids. It produces plausibly convincing <i>patterns</i> of speech.<p>But from the way it's built and trained, it's not like there's even any kind of factual confidence level you could threshold, or anything. The concept of factuality doesn't exist in the model at all.<p>So, is any progress being made towards internet-scale ML "fact engines" that also have the flexibility and linguistic expressiveness of ChatGPT? Or are these just two totally different paths that nobody knows how to marry?<p>Because I know there's plenty of work done with knowledge graphs et al., but those are very brittle things that generally need plenty of human curation and verification, and can't provide any of the (good) "fuzzy thinking" that ChatGPT can. They can't summarize essays or write poems.