eli5 : Why does ai like ChatGPT or Llama 3 make things up and fabricate answers?

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I asked it for a list of restaurants in my area using google maps and it said there is a restaurant (Mug and Bean) in my area and even used a real address but this restaurant is not in my town. Its only in a neighboring town with a different street address

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Because ChatGPT is not a search engine, it’s not a research tool, and it’s not actually intelligent. It is a chat tool, and while it’s pretty cool there isn’t an actual brain behind it. You give it the conditions you want and ask it to do something, and it’ll scan the data used to train it and form sentences based on those conditions. It’s basically a next-word-prediction program with a *hell* of a lot of “if-then-else” statements in the programming.

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