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Yes, ChatGPT can answer questions. Can you trust it? Nope.

The reason: hallucinations.

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ChatGPT: hallucinations about weather data

When I demoed ChatGPT to my undergraduate engineering students on Friday, I asked for a question from the class. One is illustrated above: Seattle and Washington temperatures in 2010. Students quickly turned to Dr. Google to fact-check ChatGPT. Big oops, there, OpenAI.

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Twitter blocks links to Mastodon. Announcement of other blocks is vaporware.

New policy: suspend any account which references a banned account in the account bio or display name. Probably also just Mastodon.