How Language Models Work

Lesson 07

Limits

Its mistakes aren’t random. They’re the machine showing through.

You can now work out what an AI will get wrong before it gets it wrong. Here are the three classics. Each one is caused by something you have already seen, including the model’s knowledge cutoff.

A tortoise folded from moss green paper, low under a domed shell.
It is slow to the news, and it does not know that it is. Everything after the day its reading stopped is simply not in the shell.

1Pick a question it fails

Do thisRead its answer. Then press Why does it do that? The reason is always something from an earlier lesson.

2What it answers