"When we sat through Copilot training at work, the Microsoft guy
actually told us that we will get better results if we use the word
'please' in our prompt. He was serious, not joking."
Sounds like INTERCAL [see Google], a programing language from the last
century. It contained the keyword PLEASE which was undocumented but if
it had been documented it would be: "if 'PLEASE' does not appear often
enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error
message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be
rejected as excessively polite and obsequious."
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
------ Original Message ------
From "Al Lorona via Elecraft" <[email protected]>
To "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date 8/26/2025 12:48:55 PM
Subject Re: [Elecraft] Grounding screw for K3S
I am not even impressed with artificial 'intelligence' so far. The other day, Microsoft Copilot
made an addition mistake in an equation I had asked for, and when I pointed out the error it simply
said, "Oh, you're right! I won't make that mistake again." But then, another time it gave
me the correct answer but to test its confidence I again challenged its accuracy. And again it
said, "Oh, you're right! I won't make that mistake again." So you can neither trust it
when it's wrong nor trust it when it's correct.
When we sat through Copilot training at work, the Microsoft guy actually told
us that we will get better results if we use the word 'please' in our prompt.
He was serious, not joking.
What I've seen so far definitely doesn't impress me, and I'll be darned if I'm
going to go out of my way to say 'please' to a machine.
Al W6LX/4
Bill DeVore via Elecraft <[email protected]> wrote:
BTW here’s what the AI wizards said:
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