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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/3/14/23637633/chatgpt-bing-generative-ai-ethan-lilach-mollick>
"About 10 minutes into my interview with Ethan Mollick, a professor at the
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school who has become a prominent
evangelist for AI tools, it became clear that he was going to use Bing to
interview me.
He started by asking the Microsoft search engine, newly infused with a
generative AI model from OpenAI, “Can you look at the work of Dylan Matthews of
Vox and tell me some common themes, as well as any strengths or weaknesses.” In
a couple seconds, Bing had an answer: “Dylan Matthews is one of the senior
correspondents at Vox. He covers topics such as effective altruism,
philanthropy, global health, and social justice.” (So far, so good.)
Dylan “often uses charts, graphs, tables, and quotes from experts and sources
to support his arguments,” it continued, but “other Vox writers may have
different writing styles and tones depending on their topic and audience.” For
instance, “Some may aim to entertain readers with interesting facts or
stories,” which I guess is not something the machines think I do.
Mollick wasn’t done interrogating. He asked for examples of some of the best
praise and criticism of my articles, and unearthed some scathing critiques of
an old tongue-in-cheek defense of monarchy I once wrote (“This is a terrible
article,” noted one poster. “It’s full of cherry-picked data”), and some nice
notes on a feature I wrote about effective altruism last summer.
Taking that thread and running with it, Mollick asked Bing for ideas of papers
on the topic of effective altruism and some names of journals that might take
them; he got three suggestions, with links to previous articles the journals
had run on the topic (one journal — notably given generative AI’s occasional
tendency to hallucinate false facts — was paired with an article it didn’t run,
and an author who did not even write that article)."
Via
Garbage Day, who wrote “not sure I agree with all of this, but it’s still
interesting”
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-can-my-parents-use-this-thing
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
