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Some users have complained that the AI refuses to complete tasks and gives lackluster answers.
It is not clear what caused the break-in. One developer blames seasonal depression.
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ChatGPT had a slow start to the year – but Sam Altman says chat AI is now over its winter doldrums.
The chatbot should now be “much less lazy” after the startup fixed an issue, according to the OpenAI CEO. Some users had complained that ChatGPT refused to complete tasks and was rude to them.
“Gpt-4 had a slow start to its New Year’s resolutions, but now it should be a lot less lazy,” Altman wrote in a post on X.
Users began complaining about the chatbot late last year, according to reports around 1.7 billion users since its launch in 2022, would lag and refuse to complete certain tasks.
A startup founder asked the chatty AI to create a list of all weeks between November 2023 and May 2024, only to be told the chatbot couldn’t create an “exhaustive list.”
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Some users found inventive strategies to get around ChatGPT’s laziness and found that the AI model gave longer answers, if they promised to tip him $200 (about 185 euros)..
OpenAI acknowledged the problem at the time and in January released a software update that it said was intended to fix the problem of “laziness” in its advanced GPT-4 “Turbo” model.
It’s unclear what caused Chat GPT to become lazy.
AI models are prone to unpredictable behavior that even their creators cannot always fully understand. OpenAI provided found that different training runs could produce models with drastically different personalities and quirks, even if she trained all of them on the same data.
One developer even suggested that ChatGPT could take a winter break.
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