I can see some ways that large labs could collect data on how effective their models are at persuasion, or something like it. As they have the corpus of back-and-forth interaction with chatbots by regular people today.
Take a chat of the form: “I think X (not Y) but I’m open to change my mind.” The chatbot responds with arguments for Y. SOME (but probably only a small portion) of these chats might culminate in some human text of the form “You convinced me.”
Many of the things that we humans seek assistance in understanding are the common controversial topics... (read more)
I would posit that you learn as much from success as you do from mistakes, if you sufficiently analyse them after the fact. We just tend to analyse and post-mortem mistakes more than we do successes. If I think of mistakes I made in hiring or people management, for example, the core learnings were more about people's skills and personalities than anything else. Things I didn't know prior, or should have asked about or tested, for example. Though making the decision and seeing the consequences of it, I learned things.
Great tips for anyone starting out doing media!
Here's 2 more:
1) use a couple of short punchy, ideally unique phrases or analogies during your interview, and put emphasis on these, clearly articulate them when you say them. These can get picked up by the producers and used in the chevron (the text below you as you're speaking on TV) and subsequently on the articles that are posted online when they clip the video and post it on YouTube. E.g. "Smith: AI Safety is the biggest bipartisan issue today".
2) Usually you can submit notes to producers ahead of interv... (read more)