From Brad DeLong’s Substack. I think the point of ChatGPT being easy, convincing, and “sloppy” is an important triangulation on human nature, particularly in younger, less experienced people in academia – e.g. students.

• Education & MAMLMs: Josh Gans’s view is that our students already find it much easier to ask questions of ChatGPT than to go to office hours or email and get an answer back a day or two later, and so they will ask ChatGPT the questions. The result is that the average quality of the answers they get back will be low: ChatGPT has been designed and trained to exhibit mammoth amounts of verbal linguistic fluency—it can be quite persuasive—but its level of substantive knowledge and misinformation is that of your average internet s***poster.
• Yes, it is possible, through “prompt engineering”, to do something to direct ChatGPT’s attention to that part of its lossy-compressed training data that contains reliable information. But our students do not know how to do that. And even those who claim that they do know admit that it is a black and unreliable art.

APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI

• New research from Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies and the developer of the Claude family of Large Language Models (LLMs), has released research showing that the process for getting LLMs to do what they’re not supposed to is still pretty easy and can be automated. SomETIMeS alL it tAKeS Is typing prOMptS Like thiS.

SBIRs

• Waiting for responses to the draft. I think I’ll also do a spreadsheet for hours while I’m waiting. Done. And then there were requests and now they are done too.
• 9:00 Standup – done
• 4:30 Last book club of the year – done. Finishe the book next time

GPT Agents

• Reviewed changes for the article
• Need to get a first draft of the diagram. I think I need the points on the graph, and then then arrows for control, value, and content(?). Maybe do this in Gephi? Downloaded the new version. Going to give it a shot. Nah. Not enough control. Back to Illustrator