GenAI Diary (page) ... Seven genAI guidelines for using ChatGPT on IPhones and Macs

Last update: Tuesday 6/24/25

Back in the day (circa 2024), people were still talking about "prompt engineering" wherein users spent considerable time and thought carefully editing their prompts to ensure maximum utility from the chatbot's response. But in late 2024, after ChatGPT acquired conversational skills and memory of previous encounters, other guidelines have become more imperative. This note suggests seven guidelines that the editor of this blog has found to be useful in the two to three hours he spends each day in spontaneous conversations with the chatbot.

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GenAI Diary (page) ...The absence of critical thinking in the research design of a recent MIT Media Lab study of student misuse of ChatGPT

Last update: Sunday 6/22/25

This note discusses the absence of critical thinking in the research design of a recent MIT Media Lab study of student misuse of ChatGPT.  

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The Neoskeptics editor asked the GPT-4 Oracle: "What's the next big thing after Large Language Models (LLMs)?" -- DRAFT

Last update: Saturday 4/15/23 

Once again, the editor of this blog has asked the GPT-4 oracle to look into its crystal ball. Of course, an LLM can't analyze anything or predict anything; but it should be able to produce a plausible distillation of the consensus of opinions among the small community of experts who have published the most papers on the Internet that addressed the issues raised by his questions. Like millions of other "well informed" people, the editor had been surprised, nay flabbergasted by the sudden appearance of ChatGPT last fall running GPT-3.5, and again a few weeks ago when the new GPT-4 model was introduced.