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ArticlePlan­ning your goal before you type

You can chat back and forth with Chat­GPT as much as you like it’s right there in the name However if you’re hop­ing to get something spe­cific from the AI it’s best to be clear about your goals That starts with under­stand­ing them your­self what...

ArticleWhere your role ends and the AI’s begins

While it’s import­ant to be clear about what you want from the AI there’s no need to dic­tate the pre­cise terms of your enquiry or an exact struc­ture for its response unless it’s for a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose such as filling in a form or pro­cessing...

ArticleUse the AI as a col­lab­or­ator, not a tool

Chat­GPT won’t do any­thing without your input but it isn’t a mech­an­istic device that you can con­trol dir­ectly AI engines by their nature aren’t per­fectly pre­dict­able or con­sist­ent‡ there’s a reason why we talk about “prompts” rather than...

ArticleThe tech­no­logy behind the chat

e’ve men­tioned that Chat­GPT remem­bers the con­text of a con­ver­sa­tion but it’s worth dig­ging a little more deeply into exactly how this works When you type in a prompt Chat­GPT doesn’t inter­pret your words dir­ectly but rather trans­lates them...

ArticleHow tokens build con­text

The use of tokens comes with some import­ant implic­a­tions The first thing to grasp is that once a token has entered the con­text win­dow it remains there indef­in­itely or at least until the con­ver­sa­tion goes on past a cer­tain length as we’ll...

ArticleWhy earlier instruc­tions lose influ­ence over time

ArticleWhat the AI does remem­ber

Every con­ver­sa­tion with Chat­GPT has its own con­text win­dow and the things you say in one thread won’t affect the AI’s beha­viour in a dif­fer­ent one… with a few excep­tions Open up the Chat­GPT Set­tings inter­face and you’ll find a sec­tion...

ArticleAccur­acy and error pre­ven­tion

I has a bad repu­ta­tion for “mak­ing things up” In a sense this is entirely fair as we’ve seen everything it tells you is effect­ively Aa prob­ab­il­istic infer­ence Chat­GPT has no way of determ­in­ing whether the answers it gives you are...