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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It’s not actually thinking. It’s probabilistically associating. Which is often fine for writing but useless for technical questions without clear answers, or ones with multiple plausible answers like streets. 

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