Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-06-08/Recent research


 * Neat summary! Thanks for writing this! Toadspike   [Talk]  11:42, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * WikiChat is extremely interesting. I tried a few prompts against both it and ChatGPT. I underestimated ChatGPT a bit—it gave me accurate information on some niche topics I've written about in Wikipedia and worked out that I was asking trick questions about a famous person's death and a made-up TV episode. I forced it to hallucinate with a question about a fictional sportsperson. It also told me about the four colour theorem when I asked When was it proven that five colours are enough to colour a planar graph? WikiChat was much more concise, which could be good or bad depending on your use case, and I couldn't make it hallucinate. Its correct answer on the five colour theorem was particularly impressive in comparison. It gave a better answer to my question about when "Dumbledore killed Snape [sic]", but an incomplete answer about "the fastest sorting algorithm" ("The fastest sorting algorithm in practice is typically Quicksort ..." – but under what assumptions?). — Bilorv ( talk ) 19:06, 11 June 2024 (UTC)