Comment by getnormality

5 hours ago

AI capabilities today are jagged and people look at what they want to.

Boosters: it can answer PhD-level questions and it helps me a lot with my software projects.

Detractors: it can't learn to do a task it doesn't already know how to do.

Boosters: But actually it can actually sometimes do things it wouldn't be able to do otherwise if you give it lots of context and instructions.

Detractors: I want it to be able to actually figure out and retain the context itself, without being given detailed instructions every time, and do so reliably.

Boosters: But look, in this specific case it sort of does that.

Detractors: But not in my case.

Boosters: you're just using it wrong. There must be something wrong with your prompting strategy or how you manage context.