
Perplexity vs Confidence
To the DeepSeek chatbot:
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To the DeepSeek chatbot:

To the DeepSeek chatbot:

As always, we are considering the chatbot to represent the collective general opinion of a very large set of authors, filtered through the chatbot owner’s business plan.

With all of the negativity around large language models these days, it is like trying to tip-toe through a minefield to bring them up at all.

I am publishing this conversation between myself and the Lumo chatbot here, even though in general I will be directing the majority of related material to https://chatbotics.org. The reason I want to publish it here is two-fold: One reason is rather incidental, in that I want to illustrate a useful function that chatbots are able to perform that, in my opinion, does not offend the senses, either…

I put this prompt to the Lumo chatbot:

Readers of these pages will know that I play in the shark-infested waters of machine intelligence.

[this is a work in progress]

To the Lumo chatbot:

My prompt to the Lumo chatbot: