Praise for a user document created by the Gemini large language tool reminds me that I haven’t run my private test on ChatGPT or its buddies lately. My test involves asking questions of some complexity about things that I am very knowledgeable about, evaluating the answer, and also seeing what it takes to get a more refined answer from the tool.
The clear, helpful user doc reminds me of my conclusion from earlier runnings of my private test, which was that the AI tool was skillful in creating brief texts organized as bullet lists or numbered steps.
Certain kinds of information are well-served in those formats. Other topics can’t burst out of the numbing simplicity of a clearly organized five-paragraph high school theme unless they have a different structure.
I should ask ChatGPT to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the 5-paragraph theme structure and see what happens.
PS. If you have any questions about what’s mind-numbing about 5-p themes, locate a hundred of them and read them in a row. Or maybe ask ChatGPT to write you a hundred and read those, I don’t know.