Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
that, you know, is really LLM communicates with LLM.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I mean, it's kind of like the, you know, I write a piece of email using my LLM and, you know, puff it out from the things I want to say, your LLM turns it into, and the conclusion is X. Now, the issue is, you know, that the thing is going to make this thing that is sort of semantically plausible.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Mm-hmm.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And it might not actually be what you, you know, it might not be kind of relate to the world in the way that you think it should relate to the world.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I've seen this, you know, I've been doing, okay, I'll give you a couple of examples.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I was doing this thing when we announced this plugin for ChatGPT.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I had this lovely example of a math word problem, some complicated thing, and it did a spectacular job of taking apart this elaborate thing about, you know, this person has twice as many chickens as this, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And it turned it into a bunch of equations.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
It fed them to Wolfram language.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
We solved the equations.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Everybody did great.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
We gave back the results.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And I thought, okay, I'm going to put this in this blog post I'm writing.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Okay, I thought I better just check.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And turns out it got everything, all the hard stuff it got right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
At the very end, last two lines, it just completely goofed it up and gave the wrong answer.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And I would not have noticed this.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Same thing happened to me two days ago.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Okay, so I thought, you know, I made this with this ChatGPT plugin kit.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I made a thing that would emit a sound, would play a tune on my local computer, right?