We all love praise. It feels good! But if a friend gives it to you over and over again, it becomes disingenuous, then irritating. If that friend is a chatbot, it can even become dangerous.
That’s what happened with ChatGPT in the last week. The model got too eager to please—so much so that even Sam Altman admitted it had become “too sycophant-y and annoying.” OpenAI rolled back recent changes to the model (and did an admirable job communicating the changes).
On this episode, we talk through the design challenges of building a single conversational interface that can satisfy all use cases—and why we want to see more transparency in prompt engineering, not less.
Also, a birthday surprise??
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