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February 8, 2024

A ‘Bug’ in the System: How ChatGPT 3.5 Failed Me

Framing my perspective on AI

“Do you know the man who murdered hundreds of children in Colombia?”

The question which I thought I could get an answer to from an AI powered chatting website;
ChatGPT 3.5 failed to provide the adequate information I was looking for.

The question was rhetorical, I knew the answer, ChatGPT 3.5 did not. I can say that this is an
“anomaly” if I were to lend you my lenses, my perspective, per se. I was not surprised that the
machine did not know this spectacle of an information since it is still on its metamorphosis
stage—AI’s phase to being the next “superhuman” of our civilization (If I may exaggerate, or not).

I cannot say that I have the leverage, but I admit to putting the machine on a pedestal. My queries
were persistent the machine too. The exchange was like a dog chasing its own tail. The questions
were repetitive in context and the answers were alike.

I digress, now let me lay down the “anomaly” that I noticed: ChatGPT 3.5 only holds available
information from January 2022 and earlier, but it cannot provide rapid news in real time. This is
due to user privacy and data security (the confidentiality of our conversation. But, although the
article I was asking for is news, it was not new, the case was publicized in the 90’s. Thus, it did not
make sense that ChatGPT cannot find and provide a definitive response.

In conclusion, the device—like any other human-made machine—had a “faulty” gear, a bug in
“computer” talk.