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Ep. 346: Getting Smarter in a Dumb World

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Evolving Chatbots: Balancing User-Friendliness and Complexity

This chapter explores the development of chatbots through reinforcement learning, focusing on user-friendly designs and the challenges posed by prompt engineering. It critiques the effectiveness of AI reasoning and suggests that integrating language models with external planning engines is essential for enhancing accuracy and transparency in chatbot interactions.

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