Magical Incantations For ChatBots
Are they a new career option or just an NFT-like flash in the pan?
If you’re read any of my previous articles then you’ll know that I come from the very cynical side of the fence when it comes to modern statistics, sorry machine learning, oh damn there I go again, artificial intelligence or “AI”.
Suffice it to say that I have gone from screaming into the air outside to crying into my pillow at night upon reading the already overloaded media bandwagon when it comes to describing modern chatbots as anything from the “next thing in search” to “a sea change in AI development”.
For one the P in GPT comes from “pre-trained” or, if you’re working in sales or marketing, something that can’t be changed once it’s been laid down — a bit like the foundations of a building or how people react when you cold message them on LinkedIn with a “great opportunity which is an ideal fit for your profile¹”.
Stay with me here when I say that whatever mass of text, or images, or sounds, or whatever the model was originally trained on is the basis of its subsequent future replies.
There’s no intelligence here, just a resulting probabilistic model used to make predictions based upon what incantation you supply.
