Hugh Wozenkroff: What we're really talking about here is just a new powerful machine or a new powerful interface that's going to unlock new possibilities. Well, I don't know how much of your audience is in the UK, but this stuff always reminds me of the post office scandal in the UK 20 years ago. It's like the joke that you know the tax office has failed your name and it's easier to change your name than to persuade them that you're wrong. Like there were quite a lot of people in the world called Muhammad Ali. This is a problem and an institutional question. It's not a technology question. Fascinating. And that was all the
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem (12:00), whether this is a genuine breakthrough moment (15:20), what this means for humans (18:25), “prompt engineering” (23:00), humans as curators rather than creators (26:40), tech’s mid-life crisis (27:45), the future of “search” (32:10), using AI do make “no-code” software (35:00), where we go from here (39:00), and the illusion of creativity (42:45).
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