The Problem – GIGO
NOTE: The purpose of the next few lessons is to help you use AI to get better results from your thinking.
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Let’s get started. The written conversation in the next few lessons is between myself and ChatGPT …
Lesson 20 DFQ: What is the most interesting idea, or insight, you personally discerned from this lesson?
Next Lesson: Garbage Prompts
The importance of asking focused questions and putting effort into your own contributions to enhance the quality of interactions with AI systems like ChatGPT.
It makes sense that the quality of the output depends on the quality of the input.
My concern for the future is AI being deliberately fed misleading, biased, non- representative or flawed information to create a specific outcome for a specific agenda…and how that will be used. Also how it will be combated.
It makes sense to ask specific well thought out questions if you want a useful quality response. I was wondering if we can “educate” ChatGPT with our well thought out quality inputs, but apparently not – “Each session with ChatGPT is independent and doesn’t impact future responses”
The GIGO lesson learnt here for me is to get the best out AI I need to get the best out myself, my thoughts, beliefs, perspectives and how much context matters in everything.
GIGO does not ONLY apply to AI. Asking unbiased, intelligent, thoughtful, and insightful questions is actually a lot of mental lifting. It is a discipline. I may develop a framework around this concept to remind myself when working with my AIs. Cheers!
I am thinking of using AI for course creation, and today you gave me the idea to use ChatGPT to draw information from unrelated areas to my primary search. For example I just searched how to incorporate principles in engineering to promote Breathwork, and got some great ideas!
GIGO, applies not only to the chatGBT databank, but the framing of the question, which will lead to a better-quality response.
“To use Chat GPT effectively, you should provide it with relevant information and context when asking your questions.” In all conversations it is easy to assume your assumptions, context and personal perspective are self-evident.
GIGO is very elementary concept when engaging with LLM’s, suspect this course is very much aimed at noobs.
It’s GIGO. In other words AI is only as good as it’s trained by human thinkers.