"The way to use chatbots is not to ask them what’s true but to tell them what you think is true and then ask them for feedback. This lets you learn without eroding your ability to think for yourself."
"Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or sorrow, or shame. Wisdom can always be rented for free, but it must be purchased with pain."
" ...while unintelligent people are more easily misled by other people, intelligent people are more easily misled by themselves. They’re better at convincing themselves of things they want to believe rather than things that are actually true. This is why intelligent people tend to have stronger ideological biases; being better at reasoning makes them better at rationalizing."
Good quotes. The bit about chatbots reminds me of a friend of mine who is writing an historical novel and using ChatGPT and Gemini. He's very well-positioned to do this, being a retired software engineer with a special interest in AI, so he has an excellent idea of how the things work. He uses them for copy editing and for translation, but also asks their "opinions." They are fairly good at this, able to spot inconsistencies and question tone and motivation, but also make occasional remarks that make it quite clear they don't really know what's going on.
ReplyDeleteIs this Gurwinder Bhogal?
ReplyDeleteYes. Newish on my sidebar
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