The 200 year-old company may soon go public on the back of AI-powered education products.

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    392 days ago

    More general-purpose models like ChatGPT suffer from hallucinations because they have hoovered up the entire internet, including all the junk and misinformation.

    Incorrect. ChatGPT hallucinates because that’s how LLMs work. Hoovering up misinformation is a separate problem.

    A company in the space of selling educational books that has seen its fortunes go the opposite direction is Chegg. The company has seen its stock price plummet almost in lock-step with the rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, as students canceled their subscriptions to its online knowledge platform.

    Incorrect. Chegg is a cheating platform. It is the opposite of a knowledge platform.

    Why is Gizmodo paying people to write articles who apparently know pretty much nothing about the subject they are writing about?

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      62 days ago

      Having bad information in your dataset surely has to increase the odds of hallucinations though.