Overview of Limitations and Knowledge Cut-Off

While many have called ChatGPT with GPT-4 or GPT-4o the most advanced language model to date, with impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation, it is essential to understand its limitations. This section seeks to provide us with a clear understanding of these limitations, ensuring that we can use the model effectively and responsibly.

Inherent limitations of language models

To understand ChatGPT’s limitations, one must first understand how language models function. At its core, ChatGPT, like other language models, analyzes vast amounts of text data to predict the next word in a sequence. It doesn’t “understand” text like humans do but rather identifies patterns in the data it was trained on.

This leads to a fundamental difference ...