ChatGPT and Decision Making
I saw two snippets in different articles about different aspects of ChatGPT, and both were quite thought-provoking. Tyler Cowen points to this link on how the same characteristics of the AI chatbot can be good for some fields, but not-so-great attributes in other fields. The study in question found its tone to be more neutral than that of most humans, and it focused on facts. People in the areas of finance and psychology tend to find it to be “more useful than humans”. On the flip side though, that very attribute makes ChatGPT unattractive to those in the medical domain. Why? Because they feel it gives too much information but “not enough simple instructions”. If true, this would suggest ChatGPT is a great tool to collect the facts (though I’ve also seen articles that accuse ChatGPT of being a bit too left leaning!) but not so useful in decision making advice… The other one was this book recommendation site that asked ChatGPT to recommend the best books on the topi...