Comment by Spivak
9 months ago
So you have two prompts, one is ambiguous and the second is the same prompt but with the ambiguity resolved.
In the first prompt the replicated pattern is to ask for clarification, in the second prompt the replicated pattern is to perform the work. The machine might understand nothing but does it matter when it responds appropriately to the different cases?
I don't really care whether it understands anything at all, I care that the machine behaves as though it did have understanding.
> So you have two prompts, one is ambiguous and the second is the same prompt but with the ambiguity resolved.
No. You have an initial prompt that is vague, and then you have another prompt that is more specific.
- "draw me an automobile"
- "here's a picture of an ambulance."
- "could you make it a convertible instead? Perhaps green."
- "ok, here's a picture of a jaguar e-type".