User Critiques ChatGPT's Lack of Common Sense Outside RL Domains
DanielKramer_ · reddit · 2026-07-30
A user testing ChatGPT on tasks like analyzing Meta's earnings report found it severely lacking in common sense, failing to grasp basic market logic such as stock prices dropping when expectations are exactly met.
The user pointed out that while Reinforcement Learning (RL) has significantly boosted model performance in areas like coding and math, it makes the model appear foolish in general scenarios outside its specific training. They noted that the current heavy reliance on domain-specific RL sacrifices the generalization of base models, meaning complex real-world logic still requires a fundamentally stronger base model.
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