I’ve toyed with chat gpt as an education tool. Of course you can’t trust what it’s putting out since it will confidently tell you an incorrect thing. But it’s obvious that the framework is there for an education revolution. I’ve asked it to teach me a concept I’m struggling with while I have the text book open in front of me to verify what I’m reading is accurate. It has thus far not spit out any misinformation although that’s strictly anecdotal.
But where it shines is in how it can explain concepts, reword things, and help generate techniques to remember things. You can really do a deep dive and ask follow up questions that go way further than any static text book. Obviously having an experienced teacher doing these things is the best option but what do you do if your teacher sucks or you don’t have a teacher at all, this could really serve to enhance the education of people that have limited resources.
Just being able to say hey I still don’t get it explain it a different way and having it reword things is huge. Yeah maybe kids won’t get to experience the joys of going to the library and having to use the Dewey decimal system, but if used correctly it could really enhance and personalize the education process and fill in a lot of gaps we see in places that don’t have access to good educators.
“Sam Altman says he’s not ready to respond to that; that’s really more a question for the board; that he cannot speak to that at this time; and he’s excited for the future direction of ChatGPT and openAI in general”
This feature is huge IMHO, and I've been excitedly waiting for it. I believe it's the same as copying-and-pasting a long standard prompt every time you initiate a new conversation, but that would hardly be more efficient than saving it once in your profile.
Edit: I just spent the last hour specifying my Custom Instructions and testing them, and yes, this is a killer feature. The responses I'm now able to produce are so much better than before, just by laying out a bunch of general rules and preferences. I find it an enormous relief.
So I can say now after using it for a while that custom instructions was in fact a game changer. I’m using ChatGPT daily again for work and life things. Really exciting!
I think it's sad, though, how few people seem to realize how potentially game-changing it is. I wish OpenAI did a better job of communicating to us users.
Over the past month I've continued to tweak and improve my own custom instructions, and a couple of things I'll share here that seem broadly useful:
I understand that you're an AI language model, and not a human. Consequentially I understand that your abilities are limited.
Boom, no more explanations of the obvious.
Respond to me using advanced technical language and advanced concepts.
(Or similarly, adjust to your own preferred learning level.)
OpenAI, 10A can have his commission check :D I guess I’ll resubscribe the premium now, had cancelled when browsing was removed and I felt like I was getting worse responses for a bit. Now I'm excited to try this out.
Listened to this recently. I loved the part where one of the researchers said his wife plays a game in conversations where she tries to bullshit her way through and pretend that she's an expert in Mathematics. But she's really just repeating random things that she's heard before from her husband. And that repetition without knowing is ChatGPT.
I hope it's true. Because I'm still a little scared for the future here. Our systems aren't exactly equitable. I don't see a positive future from a lot of these advances.
ChatGPT, dude
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