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ChatGPT doesn't know anything about ants


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#1 Offline antkeeper55 - Posted May 26 2023 - 8:14 PM

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So, hearing that ChatGPT is good at a lot of things, I figured I'd test its knowledge by asking it something hard: listing every species under genus Tapinoma. It actually was off to a pretty good start, and at first glance, I almost believed it until I saw this one:Screenshot (938).png

 

"Tapinoma monomorium".

 

Not only is that not a species, those are both genus names.  :facepalm: I looked back at the rest and realized:

 

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Most of these are fake. I'm not even sure where it got some of these species names from, like "Tapinoma essequeboense" 

 

So it looks like ChatGPT still has a lot to learn when it comes to ants.


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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted May 27 2023 - 12:52 PM

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A lot of them honestly seem like they could be valid scientific names. Imagine if myrmecologists started using ChatGPT to come up with names for species…

#3 Offline Zeiss - Posted May 27 2023 - 1:31 PM

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ChatGPT uses natural language processing (NLP) and is not good at a lot of things because it is being advertised as something it is not. It really only excels in one thing: producing sentences that sound coherent and flow just like any other real person would speak. It does not pull information from a database to ensure what it is presenting to you is accurate or correct; it just predicts what words to use based upon a given input (question) and has percentages of which words to choose based on the word it previously used. One of the best ways to implement ChatGPT would be to produce filler conversation for background characters in videogames, for example. 



#4 Offline Manitobant - Posted May 27 2023 - 1:55 PM

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Just did this myself and got some… interesting results

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#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 27 2023 - 2:10 PM

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Dead wrong on the range of Camponotus sericeiventris.
Humanity: 1 — AI: 0
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#6 Offline bmb1bee - Posted May 27 2023 - 2:39 PM

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As a human and not an AI, I can verify that Lassus latipes are indeed thicc.
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#7 Offline Barristan - Posted May 27 2023 - 4:41 PM

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I think ants weren't a big priority while training. Since it is not really open what websites and other texts were used you can't really tell. But I guess not many were used.

Other types of AI also struggle with ants. While you can generate quite realistic looking pictures of humans, cats, dogs etc, ants look far from real in the image generation AIs ;)


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#8 Offline MrLunk - Posted June 27 2023 - 1:12 PM

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It depends a bit on what information you ask from it...
I fed ChatGPT (unpaid version) about 25 short lines of knowledge that i learned from a day of reading articles and watching videos.

Then I told (prompted) ChatGPT:

Write an article about: 'Ants' Ingenious Engineering: Building Ramps for Efficient Navigation'
And include the information from the next 25 lines:

1.
2.
3.
etc....
 

After the initial article was borked out by ChatGPT I asked it to write an extra sub about lasius niger concerning this same subject.

And voila here is the article after checking and adding a lil tit-n-tat...

https://formicarilun...g-building.html

Please do add a comment here or on my formicariLunk blog if you have information to add
or see something that could be improved to make the info more accurate or more complete.

Greetz,
Peter Lunk

P.s. I'll be info-fed-ChatGPT-prompt-writing more in the future on subjects of my interest :)


Edited by MrLunk, June 27 2023 - 1:12 PM.





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