Comment by criddell
2 years ago
So it's more like talking to a person.
If somebody asked me how heap sort works (my favorite sort!) I can sketch it out. If they ask me where I learned it, I really don't remember. Might be the Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman book. I can't really say though.
Yes, and then I'll evaluate that answer by your reputation, either socially, organizationally, or publicly. I will value that summary differently if you are a random person on the street, a random person who works at a tech company, or a person wearing a name tag that says "Donald Knuth, Stanford University".
ChatGPT has little reputation of its own, and produces such a broad swath of knowledge, it becomes "Jack of all trades, master of none."
The "jack of all trades, master of none" heuristic works well for humans because given our limited lifespans and rate we assimilate knowledge, it's nearly impossible for someone to be both.
ChatGPT in later iterations CAN be a jack of all trades AND a master of many (most? all?) of them.