# ChatGPT level of confidence **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [April 30, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-level-of-confidence/1017717 "2025-04-30T17:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-level-of-confidence/1017717/36 "2025-05-01T01:23:18Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Not the same at all. LLMs successfully solve problems in logic, interpret images, can flawlessly perform language translation, and can answer a series of complex and even profound questions, usually correctly. Lots of examples have been given in other discussions on this board. They genuinely understand what the user is saying or asking, or if you prefer, they definitely act as if they do, and therefore even the current demonstration models of GPT have actual utility. As I mentioned in another thread, one thing that impresses me is ChatGPT’s ability to ask the user meaningful questions to clarify the meaning of a request, such as with this image generation request. Not only did it “understand” the request, but it gave consideration to variable details that I might find important. > [@AI image generation is getting crazy good](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-image-generation-is-getting-crazy-good/1017203/157): > > It occurred to me to wonder how it would represent a hologram. [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/7zOYAQ8.jpeg)[[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/F24Mtsf.jpeg) To me, the AI asking intelligent questions for clarification is impressive in itself. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-level-of-confidence/1017717)._