ChatGPT: Why does it matter, how special is it, and what might be ahead?

Why does ChatGPT matter?

* People always get excited about AI advances and this one is accessible in a way that others weren’t in the past.

* People can use natural language to prompt a natural language response.

* It’s seductive because it feels like synthesis.

* And it can feel serendipitous.

But…

* We need to remember that ChatGPT and all other generative AI are tools and they can fail us.

* While it may feel serendipitous, that serendipity is more constrained than it may feel.

Some other ideas we cover:

* The research at Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Apple gives us some context for evaluating how special ChatGPT actually is and what might be ahead.

* The current craze about prompt engineering.

What we’re reading:

* Raghuveer Parthasarathy’s So Simple a Beginning

* Don Norman’s Design for a Better World

* Jamer Hunt’s Not to Scale

* Ann Pendleton-Jullian & John Seely Brown’s Design Unbound

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