ChatGPT is dumber than it looks

The idea is: learn to prompt chatbots very well = get way better outputs.

Right now, intricate prompting is helpful for some tasks. But over time, we think it’s an overrated skill. Here’s why:

1. As AI models improve, they require less “engineered” prompts. DALL-E 3 is a great example of this (you get top-tier images with < 10-word prompts).

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In the famous Turing test, a human judge determines whether a machine and a person can be told apart on the basis of how they communicate. If the machine can fool the judge, then human specialness can be dismissed.

Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots?

The test is not treated seriously in rigorous philosophy circles, but remains... See more

In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in res... See more

We could assume that because ChatGPT is chat-based, every other consumer AI product should follow suit. But that’s the wrong line of thought. Speedinvest uses an example:

Chat (or voice) is the worst possible interface for interacting with technology, with some exceptions . I’ll get to the exceptions in a minute, but first let me explain why. Imagin

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