When you type in a query, is that a search or a question? Maybe that's the way of thinking about it. Sometimes I want to know when did Charlie Temple die? Or how do I get to Rotterdam? What's the newest airport? But other times I might want, you know, where can I buy this coat? And that's a search. You know, what are good hotels in Lisbon? That's not really a question. What I'm actually looking for is a manually career. I'm looking for something that somebody wrote. It turns out the answer is mostly wrong. Yeah.
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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