open ai - How does an AI answer a question in a subject which it may not know? - Artificial Intelligence Stack Exchange

ChatGPT is a large language model. That means it's very good at stringing together words in ways that humans tend to use them. It's able to construct sentences that are grammatically correct and sound natural, for the most part, because it's been trained on language. Because it's good at stringing together words, it's able to take your prompt and generate words in a grammatically correct way that's similar to what it's seen before. But that's all that it's doing: generating words and making sure it sounds natural. It doesn't have any built-in fact checking capabilities, and the manual limitations that OpenAI placed can be fairly easily worked around.