{"id":86423,"date":"2023-04-03T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86423"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:22:29","slug":"gpt-4-is-a-reasoning-engine-reason-is-only-as-good-as-the-information-we-give-it-shipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/04\/03\/gpt-4-is-a-reasoning-engine-reason-is-only-as-good-as-the-information-we-give-it-shipper\/","title":{"rendered":"GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine | Reason is only as good as the information we give it [Shipper]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/every.to\/chain-of-thought\/gpt-4-is-a-reasoning-engine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from every.to by Dan Shipper<br \/>\n<em>Reason is only as good as the information we give it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Even though our AI models were trained by reading the whole internet, that training mostly enhances their reasoning abilities not how much they know. And so, the performance of today\u2019s AI models is constrained by their lack of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I saw Sam Altman speak at a small Sequoia event in SF last week, and he emphasized this exact point: GPT models are actually reasoning engines not knowledge databases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is crucial to understand because it predicts that advances in the usefulness of AI will come from advances in its ability to access the right knowledge at the right time\u2014not just from advances in its reasoning powers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Why? It\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/every.to\/chain-of-thought\/gpt-4-a-copilot-for-the-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/every.to\/chain-of-thought\/gpt-4-a-copilot-for-the-mind&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1680629833194000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2TyPZoG_WWKq7JIYQyCLto\">expensive and time consuming<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">to find information that\u2019s relevant to the things you think about. Even if you give AI access to a search engine, so it can make queries to find the right information\u2014it\u2019ll cost you money and time.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>If, instead, you\u2019ve spent a lifetime gathering and curating\u00a0 information that\u2019s important to you, you can customize your AI experience so it\u2019s more useful to you right off the bat.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine &#8212; from every.to by Dan Shipper Reason is only as good as the information we give it Excerpt: Even though our AI models were trained by reading the whole internet, that training mostly enhances their reasoning abilities not how much they know. And so, the performance of today\u2019s AI models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86424,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86423\/revisions\/86424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}