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Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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Post by visarga »

the_af wrote: post #239
visarga wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they are different systems, one is a collection of saved snippets and the other more like RAG over chat history.

ChatGPT assures me it doesn't use RAG (fed from my other chat windows), but will use memory-saved preferences (in the store that can be accessed and reviewed in Settings->Personalization->Memory). Then again, I don't think ChatGPT is reliable when reporting on its own inner workings. --- Oh, no, here it says it also references chat history: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-faq

You can use ChatGPT for these kinds of questions but it needs to use search or research mode, don't ask it in closed book mode.

Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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Post by k2xl »

rat87 wrote: post #123
k2xl wrote: post #35

I've done something similar for learning about a controversial topic. I ask it to act as if it is called Bob is a well informed supporter of one side (like Ukraine) and then act as if it is something named Alice who is a well informed supporter of another side (Russia) and they have to debate each other over a few prompts with a moderator named 'Sue' Then after a few rounds of the debate where Sue asks a bunch of que…

That seems like a terrible idea. At best it seems likely to help you make a false but convincing sounding case. I really hope no one is using that to help them understand controversial topics much less using that to determine their stances. Id recommend looking into actual human experts who are trustworthy and reading them. Trying to get LLM to argue the case will just get you a lot of false information presented in…

I recommend you try it before judging. I will be honest it has been actually very useful.

You are also assuming that the LLM is providing false information (or will have a higher chance of providing false information than a human)

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