{"id":179511,"date":"2023-12-30T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/chatgpt-often-wont-defend-its-answers-even-when-it-is-right"},"modified":"2023-12-30T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:23:53","slug":"chatgpt-often-wont-defend-its-answers-even-when-it-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/chatgpt-often-wont-defend-its-answers-even-when-it-is-right","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT often won\u2019t defend its answers, even when it is right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatgpt-often-wont-defend-its-answers-even-when-it-is-right3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT may do an impressive job at correctly answering complex questions, but a new study suggests it may be absurdly easy to convince the AI chatbot that it\u2019s in the wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A team at Ohio State University challenged <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/large+language+models\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">large language models<\/a> (LLMs) like ChatGPT to a variety of debate-like conversations in which a user pushed back when the chatbot presented a correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>Through experimenting with a broad range of reasoning puzzles, including math, common sense, and logic, the study found that when presented with a challenge, the model was often unable to defend its correct beliefs and instead blindly believed invalid arguments made by the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT may do an impressive job at correctly answering complex questions, but a new study suggests it may be absurdly easy to convince the AI chatbot that it\u2019s in the wrong. A team at Ohio State University challenged large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to a variety of debate-like conversations in which a user pushed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}