Terence Tao: A short text about when to consider using an AI for a task

2025/03/29 16:01 Terence Tao: A short text about when to consider using an AI for a task

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Terence Tao (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I was planning to write here a short text about how, when considering whether to use AI for a task, that one should take into account not only the difficulty/complexity of the task, but also the acceptable failure rate; for instance, using an AI to suggest a recipe for dinner has an acceptable failure rate when just cooking for oneself, but would be inadvisable for a head chef preparing a state banquet for a high-profile diplomatic function, even if the two tasks are essentially of comparable difficulty (per person served, at least). But I realized that since this writing task was itself simple and with a high acceptable failure rate, it made sense to just to let an AI summarize this point directly in a table form, as enclosed below; it contains minor imperfections, but certainly suffices for the task at hand. [My prompt for this can be found at https://chatgpt.com/share/67e813bc-590c-800e-90a3-79d4115a5053 ]

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