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ChatGPT is great – you're just using it wrong

  • Written by Jonathan May, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
imageChatGPT is better used for playacting than playing at finding facts.EvgeniyShkolenko/iStock via Getty Images

It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I’d help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham Lincoln...

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