OpenAI wants its next generation of AI models to be a lot more upfront about their mistakes. With ChatGPT wrong about 25% of the time, this feature seems long overdue. But the company isn't training them to be more self-aware; it's training them to report errors directly.
This week, OpenAI published new research on a technique it's calling “confessions” — a method that adds a second output channel to a model, where it’s specifically trained to describe whether it followed the rules, where it may have fallen short or hallucinated and what uncertainties it faced during the task.
