I’m curious, have you found and read/watched content using this approach that you think you’d have missed or ignored otherwise? I’m wondering if the utility comes from the ability to have a conversation with the algorithm and figure out your preferences and meta-explore the world of literature or film by generating interesting recommendation prompts, or whether it comes from the algorithm being skilled at finding surprising and unusual content you’d otherwise have struggled to find and get motivated to check out. In other words, are the superior recommendations mediated by its superior ability to help the user self-reflect?
Not sure I follow the question? I think it’s mostly coming from the ability to
Give really specific criteria and
It being able to explain why it meets that really specific criteria.
So like, I discovered Friendship is Optimal via ChatGPT when I gave it a prompt along the lines of “I want a sci fi about superintelligent take-over where the ending is considered good for humanity”.
There might be lists online for books about superintelligences, but not superintelligence + positive. This becomes more true the more criteria you add, and I probably have like, ~100 in my spreadsheet of things I like.
The second aspect, of it explaining why it meets the criteria, is also really helpful. Basically leads to it making a super catered “trailer” for you. For example, with FiO, I had had it recommended before, but I was put off by the ponies thing. But the description ChatGPT gave made me realize it was totally my jam.
I think that if you don’t have a good sense of why you like books or movies, it won’t give you very good reccs.
I’m curious, have you found and read/watched content using this approach that you think you’d have missed or ignored otherwise? I’m wondering if the utility comes from the ability to have a conversation with the algorithm and figure out your preferences and meta-explore the world of literature or film by generating interesting recommendation prompts, or whether it comes from the algorithm being skilled at finding surprising and unusual content you’d otherwise have struggled to find and get motivated to check out. In other words, are the superior recommendations mediated by its superior ability to help the user self-reflect?
Not sure I follow the question? I think it’s mostly coming from the ability to
Give really specific criteria and
It being able to explain why it meets that really specific criteria.
So like, I discovered Friendship is Optimal via ChatGPT when I gave it a prompt along the lines of “I want a sci fi about superintelligent take-over where the ending is considered good for humanity”.
There might be lists online for books about superintelligences, but not superintelligence + positive. This becomes more true the more criteria you add, and I probably have like, ~100 in my spreadsheet of things I like.
The second aspect, of it explaining why it meets the criteria, is also really helpful. Basically leads to it making a super catered “trailer” for you. For example, with FiO, I had had it recommended before, but I was put off by the ponies thing. But the description ChatGPT gave made me realize it was totally my jam.
I think that if you don’t have a good sense of why you like books or movies, it won’t give you very good reccs.
Sorry my question wasn’t clear, but you managed to answer it anyway! Thanks :)