Peter Kyle, UK Cabinet Minister for AI, does a rookie mistake when using ChatGPT: thinking it’s a good search engine (definitely not… yet).
News coverage reveals that “Kyle also used the chatbot to canvas ideas for media appearances, asking: “I’m Secretary of State for science, innovation and technology in the United Kingdom. What would be the best podcasts for me to appear on to reach a wide audience that’s appropriate for my ministerial responsibilities?” ChatGPT suggested The Infinite Monkey Cage and The Naked Scientists, based on their number of listeners.
There are much better ways to prompt (e.g. describe your goal instead of your role; give more details about your ideal target audience; or perhaps take a step back and ask “I want to give more visibility to policy XY, what are the best ways to go about it?”) and there are far better tools (even Bing is improving but Perplexity is already excellent).
The moral of the story: making AI policy is very different from AI skills.
*This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.