When Guessing Isn’t Good Enough

Over the next year or two, I expect GPT-4 and its successors to become a copilot for the mind: a digital research assistant that will bring to bear the sum total of everything you’ve read, everything you’ve thought, and everything you’ve forgotten every time you touch a keyboard. 

It will solve some of the perennial problems in produc

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For decades now, software tools have promised to make working life easier. But on one critical dimension — their ability to improve our thinking — they don’t seem to be making much progress at all.

Meanwhile, the arrival of generative artificial intelligence could make the tools we use more powerful than ever — or they could turn out to be just ano... See more

Almost every company I talk to, and basically every solution vendor, has been pushing for people to use AI to “talk-to-your-data,” an approach allows the AI to retrieve content from a company’s proprietary databases and then work with the documents and data it retrieves. The problem is that AIs hallucinate, or make up plausible information, all the... See more