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you suck at GPT4 because you don't know what your X is

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You excitedly call a friend of yours. You tell him about GPT-4 - a near godlike QA system. He tries 3.5 out a little bit, and it spits out a bunch of text at him. “Oh I see, It's like Google Assistant!”, he says. Wait, why isn't he excited? Is he not seeing what you’re seeing? “Garbage in, garbage out.”, my middle school mathematics teacher would say, as he helped the students with their calculators. The kids would mess up the syntactic order of operations. The set of symbols they input did not match the problem. The calculator's output is correct, but the answer is wrong! The original sin, then, was asking the machine the wrong question. consider subscribing! Anyone who has worked in support is familiar with the XY problem. Support agents spend most of their time teaching users what their problem really is. Users don't even want to ask questions! They’d would much rather figure it out themselves than deal with human inference latency. So, to solve problem X, they'll first attempt a

You excitedly call a friend of yours. You tell him about GPT-4 - a near godlike QA system. He tries 3.5 out a little bit, and it spits out a bunch of text at him. “Oh I see, It's like Google Assistant!”, he says. Wait, why isn't he excited? Is he not seeing what you’re seeing? “Garbage in, garbage out.”, my middle school mathematics teacher would say, as he helped the students with their calculators. The kids would mess up the syntactic order of operations. The set of symbols they input did not match the problem. The calculator's output is correct, but the answer is wrong! The original…

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