Why does ChatGPT matter?

• People always get excited about AI advances and this one is accessible in a way that others weren’t in the past.

• People can use natural language to prompt a natural language response.

• It’s seductive because it feels like synthesis.

• And it can feel serendipitous.

But…

• We need to remember that ChatGPT and all other generative AI are tools and they can fail us.

• While it may feel serendipitous, that serendipity is more constrained than it may feel.

Some other ideas we cover:

• The research at Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Apple gives us some context for evaluating how special ChatGPT actually is and what might be ahead.

• The current craze about prompt engineering.

What we’re reading:

• Raghuveer Parthasarathy’s So Simple a Beginning

• Don Norman’s Design for a Better World

• Jamer Hunt’s Not to Scale

• Ann Pendleton-Jullian & John Seely Brown’s Design Unbound

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