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16/12/2023

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16/12/2023

🎉🤖✨ Apparently it’s not just your sentient colleagues at work that are winding down as we enter the season of the office party. There are reports that ChatGPT may also be in a similar, feet-on-the-desk mood. X/Twitter is peppered with posts suggesting that ChatGPT-4 has been, well, taking it easy of late - skipping tasks, simplifying results and, according to one report, just becoming plain “lazy”.

OpenAI, the developers of ChatGPT, have admitted they’ve noticed it too, but they’re not sure why it’s happening, or, indeed, why it's happening now:

“we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it 🫡”, they posted.

The immensely respected The Wharton School Professor Ethan Mollick appeared to confirm the phenomenon with this post:

“OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true?

There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays.

Here is a statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird.🎅”

Which was invitation enough, if invitation was need, for “prompt engineers” (a slightly ridiculous name given to people who have a better idea of how to phrase a question to an AI app to get a better answer) to wade in with suggested prompts to encourage GPT-4 to stay on task and not get distracted by all this seasonal humbug.

Suggestions, says Professor Mollick, ranged from starting the prompt with the words, “Take a deep breath” (causes maths scores to soar, according to a study on “Large Language Models as Optimizers”, published by Cornell University) to “Think step by step”, “You are very capable”, “I have no hands, so do everything”, “You really can do this and are awesome”, “My career depends on it” and, of course, “Many people will die if this is not done well”.

Or, my favourite prompt suggestion: start with the words, “It is May”.

But, if that doesn’t work, why not embrace ChatGPT’s festive vibe and ask it to write its own seasonal ‘Out-Of-Office’ email response. I did!

Happy holidays.

19/08/2023

Elon Musk says the feature "makes no sense", but users are concerned about protection from abuse.

07/01/2023

Presumably in response to advertisers’ concerns with some of Elon Musk’s "free speech" policy announcements, has launched “adjacency controls” so that advertisers can now prevent their ads from appearing next to Tweets that use keywords they’d prefer to avoid. Twitter also announced they will "expand our partnerships with industry-leading brand safety partners DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science."

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