It's funny because our editor was like, should this be a moment to examine what is there going to be left for humans to do? You know, it kind of like oftentimes when you have like a quote unquote magical technology that kind of bursts onto the public consciousness, oh my goodness. Exactly. The gobbledygook and the repetitive language and the mistakes will go away. So, maybe two or three different ways of looking at this.
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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