How to talk to an AI

[Alan CharlestonParticipant @alancharleston78882]

Hi All,

I came across this on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rVlmbhwn0RM

Apparently the way you ask an AI a question influences the sort of answer you get. I didn’t know this and found it quite interesting.

Regards,

Alan C.

[Andrew CrowParticipant @andrewcrow91475]

That’s quite an interesting video Alan, but to some extent isn’t AI doing what human interaction does, where if you ask a question in the wrong way you won’t get the answer you necessarily want and we have to learn how to phrase our questions to get the information we are really seeking. It’s just that AI does it all at lightning speed. 😂

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

I find that AI doesen’t understand a Lancashire accent. I spent some time recently agreeing to something with the word Yes which I pronounced as yis.

I found it quite funny

Roy

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I haven’t checked recently, but a while agp ChatGPT was presenting two alternative responses, and asking the user to state a preference.

[same basic answer, but different styles]

I was rather impressed !

MichaelG.

[Andrew Crow]

On Andrew Crow Said:

That’s quite an interesting video Alan, but to some extent isn’t AI doing what human interaction does, where if you ask a question in the wrong way you won’t get the answer you necessarily want and we have to learn how to phrase our questions to get the information we are really seeking. It’s just that AI does it all at lightning speed. 😂

Andrew,

I think that your observation echoes what we often see on this forum.  I don’t think anybody is suggesting that the respondents on here are in any way artificially generated! How many times has a plea for assistance been replied to with a request for more details, in an effort to narrow down the question and provide an appropriate answer?

I’ve had multiple exchanges with Google AI over the last couple of days regarding my mill and on numerous occasions, I’ve had to pull it up on facilities that aren’t available on my machine but that are on it’s larger (and more expensive) brother, despite specifically mentioning in the original question the exact mill about which I was posing the query. To “its” credit, it did acknowledge its error and went on to give the required result, eventually

John

[Andrew CrowParticipant @andrewcrow91475]

John, I wasn’t being critical of anyone who asks questions on this or any other site, more an observation of life in general.

This is how most of us develop as adult humans, we learn by our mistakes we develop interaction skills between each other and constantly improve our knowledge, hopefully.

Therefore those very clever people who develop AI would naturally build this type of procedure into the programmes that run it.

Andy.

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Andrew,

I’m sorry that you construed my reply as a criticism.  It wasn’t meant to be; in fact on the contrary, I am in complete agreement with you.

John

 

[Andrew Crow]

On Andrew Crow Said:

That’s quite an interesting video Alan, but to some extent isn’t AI doing what human interaction does, where if you ask a question in the wrong way you won’t get the answer you necessarily want and we have to learn how to phrase our questions to get the information we are really seeking. It’s just that AI does it all at lightning speed. 😂

Anybody who’s ever had to ask a question of a professional software engineer, or asked a question on Stack Overflow has experienced this.

Usually the first response is “Why do you want to do that?!”.

It does make me laugh that most of the things people point to, so as to suggest AI is useless or not intelligent, can be said of humans who are not comprehensively expert in the subject domain of the question being asked! 😄

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Many people who are, or who regard themselves as, experts in their subjects are poor at teaching or explaining it.

This could be behind many of the “Why do you want to do that?” style responses.

The other common one being, “It’s easy! Anyone can do it!” followed by a lightning-speed demonstration or a torrent of jargon, that leaves the hapless enquirer feeling right daft and certainly none the wiser.

In both cases the speaker is unable not only to comprehend the enquirer finds the subject hard, but also to explain it clearly. (My school O-Level Maths teacher exemplifed these faults, helping me stay highly innumerate. He helped and encouraged only those who found maths easy to learn.)

I don’t know if AI can be like that

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