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erronis

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12. I think the difficulty for most of us is in "context switching". When we're interacting with a tool

Sat May 27, 2023, 05:58 PM

May 2023

we will have our focus on the tool's capabilities and try to maximize the utility.

If I'm talking to someone and they ask me a non-specific question like "how long before the train arrives?" I'll do some analog calculations and come up with a round-about answer. I could have asked an app for the more precise number but who cares.

Too many situations require us to context switch and it is difficult. Just look at the battles over using the keyboard for every interaction vs. shifting to the mouse or touch screen.

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College professor had students grade ChatGPT-generated essays. All 63 essays had hallucinated errors [View all] highplainsdem May 2023 OP

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I think the difficulty for most of us is in "context switching". When we're interacting with a tool erronis May 2023 #12

The best way to explain the productivity destruction of context switching! Lucky Luciano May 2023 #24

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The future of Chat bots won't be trained on available datasets like the internet. Yavin4 May 2023 #19

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See this: highplainsdem May 2023 #46

Right. OK - I think we are on the same page. speak easy May 2023 #47

Google highplainsdem May 2023 #37

His students are impressively thoughtful. Thanks for this, HPD Hekate May 2023 #27

You're welcome! I hope his experiment gets a lot of attention. highplainsdem May 2023 #42