Talking to the Machine — Using Language Models at Work

What a language model actually is, what it doesn't know and can't tell you it doesn't know, why it sounds equally sure when it's wrong, what happens to what you type — and how to use one at work without giving the work away.

What you'll learn

• Explain in one sentence what a language model is, why it isn't a database or a search engine, and why the borrowed vocabulary of knowing and thinking misleads.
• Name the four blind spots — after its training, your organisation, thin coverage, and which parts of its own answer are shaky — and stop reading fluency as reliability.
• Say what happens to what you type, ask the three questions of any service, and apply the four categories and the stranger test to what goes in.
• Check an answer without subject expertise, use it where it's genuinely good as a first draft rather than a final answer, and agree a position with your team.

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