I asked ChatGPT to think like a kid — and it suddenly saw every hole in my ideas
It's sometimes hard to question your own assumptions, and everyone has blind spots, but children are often uniquely gifted at spotting every potential flaw in an explanation and cutting to the heart of a situation with…
Read moreI changed ChatGPT’s personality to act more like Gemini — and suddenly it felt like a completely different AI
I've experimented a lot with both ChatGPT and Gemini over the years, and I've noticed some differences, many of which have been backed up by real research. ChatGPT tends to feel conversational.
Read moreI tried using ChatGPT to recreate my 1990s childhood for my kid — and suddenly our weekend had no screens at all
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, I told my two-year-old son he was going in a time machine to the 1990s, or at least experience a recreation of my childhood back then. Not entirely, of course.
Read moreI taught ChatGPT to distrust itself, and suddenly it stopped hallucinating
Anyone who uses ChatGPT or other AI chatbots eventually encounters the confident hallucination. The AI will explain a nonexistent feature, invent a quote, or describe a restaurant that closed during the first Clinton…
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