From 4685e2243fd7add4d42606d0e712f672cb1ad55a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yanir Seroussi Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:19:10 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak post: Nudging ChatGPT to invent books you have no time to read --- .../index.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/2024-02-12-nudging-chatgpt-to-invent-books-you-have-no-time-to-read/index.md b/content/posts/2024-02-12-nudging-chatgpt-to-invent-books-you-have-no-time-to-read/index.md index 7789d7378..7fdb82455 100644 --- a/content/posts/2024-02-12-nudging-chatgpt-to-invent-books-you-have-no-time-to-read/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2024-02-12-nudging-chatgpt-to-invent-books-you-have-no-time-to-read/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: Nudging ChatGPT to invent books you have no time to read author: Yanir Seroussi type: post -date: 2024-02-12T02:00:00+00:00 +date: 2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 url: /2024/02/12/nudging-chatgpt-to-invent-books-you-have-no-time-to-read/ cover: relative: true @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ I threw the full summary from Amazon at it, which includes these points: As Uri was driving, I got the ChatGPT app to read out each summary. This continued with subsequent points, with me prompting ChatGPT with "OK, next point", it inventing some stuff that sounded about right, Uri and me discussing the output, and so on. -Should Uri still read the book? Probably. Reading well-written books helps lessons sink in better than listening to made up summaries. +Should Uri still read the book? Probably. Reading well-written books helps lessons sink in better than listening to made up summaries. That said, the summaries did provide a good overview of the book topics, and they were educational. While I probably wouldn't have had this conversation if it wasn't for the long drive, I still find this use case interesting. **It's not the first time I got ChatGPT to elaborate on specific allusions – and obtained informative results.** The general pattern is giving it some text and asking _"what might they mean by X?"_