Pantsar, Markus and Fabry, Regina E. (2024) How Not to Talk about Chatbot Mistakes. [Preprint]
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The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their outputs. Recently, it has become commonplace in philosophical, scientific, and popular discourses to capture such mistakes by metaphors that draw on discourses about the human mind. The three most popular metaphors at present are hallucinating, confabulating, and bullshitting. In this paper, we review, discuss, and criticise these mental metaphors. By applying conceptual metaphor theory, we provide numerous reasons why none of the metaphors succeed in providing us with a better understanding of factual chatbot mistakes. We conclude by calling for justifications of the epistemic feasibility and fruitfulness of the metaphors at issue. Furthermore, we raise the question what would be lost if we stopped trying to capture factual chatbot mistakes by mental metaphors.
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| Keywords: | ChatGPT; chatbot mistakes; AI hallucinations; conceptual metaphor theory; mental metaphors | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence General Issues > Technology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Regina E. Fabry | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2024 13:08 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2024 13:08 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 23878 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence General Issues > Technology |
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| Date: | 6 September 2024 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23878 |
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