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by ben_w 786 days ago
When I was a kid and needed to know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in a dictionary. This had the problem you're describing — if I could do that, I wouldn't need to.

But AI? I can ask LLMs questions like:

"A couple is buying a house in Germany. What questions do they typically forget to ask, which they regret not asking, and often wish later that someone had told them to ask?"

And it can fill in the gaps better than when I ask a human the same kind of question.

I don't expect it to be perfect, this could well be a half-arsed boilerplate, but the actual humans who I asked this of, mostly responded "Huh? I don't understand?"

https://chat.openai.com/share/f17b013e-6b24-4b49-9986-78a5e4...

(Note this chat had been given custom instructions, that's why it's responding with this unusual pattern).