ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time • The Register

ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time • The Register

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough to fool a third of participants. The Purdue team analyzed ChatGPT’s answers to 517 Stack Overflow questions to assess the correctness, consistency, comprehensiveness, and conciseness of ChatGPT’s answers. The US academics also conducted linguistic and sentiment analysis of the answers, and questioned a dozen volunteer participants on the results generated by the model....

Published in www.theregister.com · by Thomas Claburn · 6 min read · August 16, 2023