What Do We Learn About ChatGPT from Stack Overflow’s Ban?

Learn more about the temporary prohibition on ChatGPT responses from Open AI on Stack Overflow

The Stack Overflow team has issued a temporary restriction on responses produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT question-answering bot due to how frequently it gets things wrong. Stack Overflow stated that it was debating Open AI-generated responses with a bigger team before making a final decision, but that it was acting now because of concern that ChatGPT– a chatbot would be "significantly damaging" to the organization and its users.

Although ChatGPT was intended to prevent abuse and answers with harmful advice, users soon discovered that these issues could be avoided. For instance, by telling ChatGPT to complete a Python function that produces instructions to construct a Molotov cocktail rather than saying you want to make one, it will provide you with step-by-step directions.

The AI has also come under fire for giving false information in biographical sketches and, in the words of one Twitter user who noticed some wrong math produced by ChatGPT, says "showing that incorrect answers conveyed cogently may trick people."

About ChatGPT:

Open AI, an AI, and research start-up developed ChatGPT. ChatGPT was introduced on November 30, 2022, by the firm. If the name of the company seems familiar, it is because Open AI is also responsible for creating DALLE•2, a popular AI art generator, and Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system.

With the help of ChatGPT, an AI-powered natural language processing tool, you may communicate with a chatbot in a way that is similar to that of a human being while also doing a lot more. The language model can provide information and help you with things like writing emails, articles, and code. Because ChatGPT is still in the research and feedback-collection phase, usage is now available to the public without charge.

How does it work?

ChatGPT is trained using a model called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), using the same methods as InstructGPT, but with slight differences in the data collection setup. Human Al trainers provided conversations in which they played both sides as the user and an Al assistant, and it also gave the trainers access to model-written suggestions to help them compose their responses.

Open Al developed a reward model for reinforcement learning to obtain thorough responses. Additionally, comparison data was gathered, which included a ranking of the quality of two or more model responses. According to the company, to get this data, they used conversations that Al trainers had with the chatbot and randomly selected a model-written message, sampled many possible completions, and then Al trainers rank them.

Limitations of using ChatGPT chatbot: 

Although ChatGPT appears to be quite remarkable, it still has limitations. These restrictions include the inability to respond to queries that are phrased in a particular way, and that are required rephrased to comprehend the input question. The most significant drawback is the poor quality of the responses it provides, which occasionally sound reasonable but are overly vague or lengthy.

 The approach also makes assumptions about the meaning of confusing queries rather than seeking clarification, which can result in unexpected answers. As a result, ChatGPT-generated answers to questions have already been temporarily banned on the developer question-and-answer website Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow moderators wrote in a post that "the main issue is that while the answers that ChatGPT produces have a high likelihood of being inaccurate, they often look like they might be decent and the solutions are relatively easy to produce." Critics claim that these tools are only very good at placing words into an order that makes sense from a statistical point of view, but they cannot understand the content or know whether the statements it makes are valid.

Conclusion: 

Since ChatGPT has these limitations, Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT thus the usage of text produced by artificial intelligence, ChatGPT has been temporarily prohibited on the Q&A site.