alt Hacker NewsSeems like it’s impossible for output to be good if the prompt is bad. Unless the AI is ignoring the literal instructions and just guessing “what you really want” which would be bad in a different way.
Seems like it’s impossible for output to be good if the prompt is bad. Unless the AI is ignoring the literal instructions and just guessing “what you really want” which would be bad in a different way.
> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
- Charles Babbage, https://archive.org/details/passagesfromlife03char/page/67/m...
EDIT: This is a new iteration of an old problem. Even GIGO [1] arguably predates computers and describes a lot of systemic problems. It does seem a lot more difficult to distinguish between a "garbage" or "good" prompt though. Perhaps this problem is just going to keep getting harder.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out