The price of intelligence. How a leading design firm is using genAI. Teaching AI to double-check its work. O1 Pro is really smart (and o1 impresses, too). How to talk to generative AI.
Well, if OpenAI wants people to pay, the free version must be able to impress as well, and right now it is NOT smarter than a fourth-grader with basic Excel skills. Three tries (better than previous versions, which never got it right) to "Prepare a list of the 50 US states, 10 Canadian provinces, and three Canadian territories, sorted in descending order of their areas, expressed in square kilometres. Proper output will be a two-column table, with the name of the state, province, or territory in the left-hand column and the area in the right-hand column."
Well, if OpenAI wants people to pay, the free version must be able to impress as well, and right now it is NOT smarter than a fourth-grader with basic Excel skills. Three tries (better than previous versions, which never got it right) to "Prepare a list of the 50 US states, 10 Canadian provinces, and three Canadian territories, sorted in descending order of their areas, expressed in square kilometres. Proper output will be a two-column table, with the name of the state, province, or territory in the left-hand column and the area in the right-hand column."
https://chatgpt.com/share/675624ad-8b00-8012-a2e6-3b31d29f2cc1
Yeah, I still have to check everything I ask it to do but it's still a time saver. The free version is OK for my needs.
"Between now and Christmas, they’ll be rolling out 12 major updates and releases." - Die Hard Meets Skynet?
The free version of ChatGPT is adequate for my needs which are text based rather than information based.