Apr 15, 2023 1 min read AI

Tiny Thoughts: ChatGPT Not So Smart

You’ve heard of ChatGPT by now. It can do some pretty cool things but it’s also incredibly confident in giving you the wrong answer. ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM). It works by predicting words and estimating meanings of those words.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how generative AI in general will affect knowledge workers. I believe it will become a tool to help most of us in our jobs. You likely won’t be replaced by AI but you will be replaced by a human who knows how to work with AI.
I really like describing ChatGPT as a calculator for words. LLMs are great at generating human-like text but they aren’t meant to replace search. These models are a compressed version of the internet. It can provide you the “average” of what the web has to say about a topic. And it can do it in a very convincing way. ChatGPT is currently good at providing ideas, helping you write, summarizing content, and generating human sounding text.

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