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Casey Newton Mar 24, 2023

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week we put Bard through its paces, listen to your voice memos about how you're using AI, and I fall in love with Spotify's synthetic DJ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/podcasts/hard-fork-bard.html

Bard Fork, and How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen

Google has unleashed its A.I. chatbot, Bard, to the world. And Spotify’s A.I. D.J. knows your taste — perhaps a little too well.

The New York Times

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Chad Kirby Mar 25, 2023

@caseynewton I love your podcast. Listening to today’s episode right now.

I keep getting the sense that you two are seeing the edges of this, might be missing something. Especially hearing about the power of Bard plugged into Google apps, search use cases, and the thing about hitting your head against a creativity wall.

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Chad Kirby Mar 25, 2023

@caseynewton It lies in the prompt engineering thing. I’m obsessed with GPT and I use it constantly throughout the day. It instantly became my third arm. I completely agree with you two about a new method in your head for how to interact with these models. *That* is prompt engineering. And the better you get at it, the more you come to appreciate the results you get.

And in my experience, the best results really are all about creativity, which you’ve alluded to.

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Chad Kirby

@caseynewton The key is to find a fit between yourself and the model. GPT sometimes hallucinates, so don’t focus on getting journalistic accuracy. Focus on getting ideas. Directions. Possibilities.

Every time I run into a wall in what I can do (or what I can bear to do), I start thinking about how to prompt GPT.

When I think about my LLM having query access to my data — yeah. Sure. Helpful. But the superpower here is *not* advanced search. The superpower is the creativity.