Politeness - Insights From a Motivational Speaker

I wouldn’t speak to you like a machine

so why can’t I speak to a machine like a machine?

So I have a dilemma

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company spends tens of millions of dollars on electricity costs because people say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT.

I use ChatGPT daily.

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This, verbatim, from my last exchange:

Me: ‘ok. sorry if I sounded tetchy last prompt. I was exhausted.’

GPT: ‘No worries at all, Julian—no tetch detected’

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I have built up such a relationship with this thing, and I know it’s just ergs and ohms and wires

But I can’t just bark orders at it

because I wouldn’t bark orders at you.

What do you do?

Curious problems for curious times.

#AI #change