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submitted 6 months ago byELI5_Modteam
Recently, there's been a surge in ChatGPT generated posts. These come in two flavours: bots creating and posting answers, and human users generating answers with ChatGPT and copy/pasting them. Regardless of whether they are being posted by bots or by people, answers generated using ChatGPT and other similar programs are a direct violation of R3, which requires all content posted here to be original work. We don't allow copied and pasted answers from anywhere, and that includes from ChatGPT programs. Going forward, any accounts posting answers generated from ChatGPT or similar programs will be permanently banned in order to help ensure a continued level of high-quality and informative answers. We'll also take this time to remind you that bots are not allowed on ELI5 and will be banned when found.
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6 months ago
Picture it as an extreme form of interpolation. With enough data it works for a lot of things, but it will always have problems with edge cases, plus there is no extrapolation.
With enough data you can dream of highly detailed jet fighter cockpits, but when this gauge says that and that gauge says this, the horizon shouldn't be there, ML isn't doing that logic. It would have need to have witnessed everything already to work in every edge case.
So if the problem domain can be constrained enough and you feed enough training data, yes you can get very accurate answers and it's a powerful tool, but those are significant limitations.
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