Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is refreshingly transparent about the state-of-the-art of ChatGPT. He writes on Twitter:

I love seeing a CEO and a company not claiming that their product does everything that their competitors’ product does, “and it cooks hamburgers, too!”

This reminds me of John Varley’s novel Steel Beach: “as my old uncle J. Walter Thompson used to say, makes your wash fifty percent whiter, cleans your teeth, and leaves your breath alone.”

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