big ideas

Stripe CEO interviews OpenAI CEO.

Patrick Collison fires question after question at Sam Altman, and gets pretty thoughtful answers in return. One interesting fact: ChatGPT is really the only AI product that Altman uses. And his most common use case is summarization. They also get […]

tech, startups, internet

Why chatbots are not the future.

“When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I […]

to your health

GPT is not a doctor.

This is the bear case, of course, and I think the optimists aren’t completely out on a limb. “STAT News reports that the research, while not yet fully released and still pending peer review, found that nearly 60 percent of […]

tech, startups, internet

What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?

Written by Stephen Wolfram, this is a technical explanation about how ChatGPT and Large Language Models work. He builds up from the ground floor, providing simplified mathematical examples that are somewhat approachable to regular people. But it is Stephen Wolfram, who is […]

better doing

How to (actually) use ChatGPT.

The first useful tip is to tell the chatbot what role you want it to play. For example, “I want you to act as a travel guide….” gets you a much more detailed response to a question like “what are […]