Is ChatGPT getting dumber? Let's talk about 'AI Drift' – Medium
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Hey there, AI enthusiasts and writers! Picture this: You open your laptop to catch up with your favorite chatbot and you notice it’s not quite as sharp as it used to be. Did ChatGPT forget to have its morning coffee or what? 🤔 ☕
We’ve all noticed it. The brilliant AI that dazzled us with astute responses is starting to feel… well, dull. It’s not just your imagination or the shine fading as ChatGPT becomes more commonplace. It’s a quantifiable trend that has AI researchers and users alike scratching their heads.
Imagine an absent-minded professor who keeps getting more information, but instead of becoming wiser, they end up misplacing their car keys in the fridge! (Yep, we’ve all been there). That’s kind of what’s happening with ChatGPT. Contrary to what you’d expect, it seems to be on a downward spiral of intelligence. Wait, did AI just pull a “classic human” on us? 😆
But why is this happening? Let me introduce the concept of ‘AI drift’.
“Drift” isn’t just something your car-loving, Fast and the Furious obsessed cousin yells about. In the AI world, it refers to the unpredictably wonky behavior of large language models (LLMs) that stray from their straight-out-of-the-box state: a deterioration in performance of an AI over time.
AI drift means its responses are less intelligent and relevant; resulting in ChatGPT seeming “dumber” compared to when it was introduced. Picture your pristine, brand-new phone gradually filling up with all those memes and random screenshots. Suddenly, it’s not as efficient anymore.
Our good friends over at UC Berkeley and Stanford — being the curious cats that they are — decided to take a closer peek into this driftiness. The drama unfolded when the researchers…
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