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Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses (www.cnbc.com)

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Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses::Nearly half of Gen Z workers say they get better job advice from ChatGPT than their managers, according to a recent survey.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How would ChatGPT know what I want to hear?

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because of the way you phrase it.

You only tell chatGPT your side of the story. And chatGPT is just a word predictor. If you offer it 2 options, and for one of them you use words that are on average 20.69% more positive to describe the option than the other one, chatGPT just fills the blanks and will see that that option is more positive, therefore it will probably recommend that.

ChatGPT has no intelligence or reason, it's just a word predictor. It doesn't use logic. It won't do an analysis of the impact of each alternative, it just has some inputs and is asked to predict what the next word will be.

[–] ioslife@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why it drives me insane that people call it AI

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

We're just word predictors too.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah noticed this when I started to make chatgpt write more sentences in essay's I was doing. When you make chatgpt write the next sentence in a paragraph 9/10 times it just rewrites what you wrote in a different way.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ask like an engineer, it will answer like an engineer. Ask like a moron, it will answer like a moron -- all that is inherent in the training data, in the question/answer pairs the thing was trained on. Ask it to impersonate a Vulkan, it will get better at maths: My armchair analysis of that is that Vulkans talk quite formally and thus you're getting more from the engineer and less from the moron training set.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually saw an article on researchers that found it answers better if you ask it to answer like it was in star Trek

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Which definitely can't be the case because Star Trek technobabble makes sense is what I'm saying, but the language mirrors that of what you see on an engineer forum so the increased accuracy smears over.

Somewhat relatedly if you want to talk about real-world warp engines (there's some physicists with some ideas or maybe better put speculations) it's probably going to start talking in StarTrek technobabble. Less "turn it off and on again", more "reinitialise the primary power coupling".