In text, you have a very different sense of what's right and wrong. There's no way that it could be absolutely wrong unless it looked like Picasso or something. Whereas in text, our perception is different. We look at it and we think, yes, but he didn't go to Oxford. He went to Cambridge or at least I think that. That's what it's done.
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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