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> a question related to retirement planning and 401K allocations, Traditional vs Roth. I had a finical advisor tell me one thing, but I heard a contrary view from someone else that made some sense. The AI took the side of the finial advisor [...] This did not feel like a chat with an intelligent being It is a great natural language ETL-type tool for all sorts of things. Curate the words you use into directives; have…
This isn’t what’s being sold. The OP is also saying things like, “frontier AI models demonstrate intelligence at human levels or above.” If this is true, a user shouldn’t need to curate their words to maintain the illusion of intelligence from the system. If LLMs are just a tool, with limits, just like every tool, then what you say is easy to accept, learn, and adapt to. For the last several years we’ve been told to…
That is definitely one way to go about it. Going through life stubbornly insisting on using a thing only in the way it is marketed instead of in a way that optimizes its usefulness (or its cost/benefit) for you seems more burdensome than necessary. There is also a saying about the definition of insanity that may be relevant to the above
Also, my suggestion was for your use-case: a pragmatic data retrieval, parsing, and presentation task. For creative fiction uses giving directives would likely return a similarly bad experience