Thanks Max, the chicken sexing example is perfect!
I've been trying to reverse-engineer why certain prompts work and others don't, and your framing of "chunked expertise" makes so much sense. I can tell when something will work before I run it, but I couldn't explain why until this article. The pattern recognition from building the same types of things hundreds of times is so real.
"Taste is pattern recognition compressed into instant judgment. Thousands of decisions made so many times they chunked together. Packed down. Automatic. Invisible even to the person running the patterns."
I disagree. IMHO, you are describing intuition, not taste.
Taste is a preference of one kind of thing over another. Intuition is subconscious pattern matching.
When people talk about it as it relates to AI, they describe taste as how someone can tell the quality of an output (or at least what I am talking about here).
Not taste as in “would I buy this picture because I think it looks nice in my living room.”
Taste as in “does the new image generation model with this prompt create a quality output.”
I WOULD agree with you in how you described it.
Either way, it’s fun to explore, dig deeper, and have conversations around it because most people give plateau-y, shallow answers and descriptions and I appreciate you reading and commenting!
I think the sommelier is a good example. They don't command premium value because of recognizing quality wines. They get paid for understanding what a particular client would like in a particular context. That's more intuition than taste. I agree intuition it's hard for AIs to compete on that.
Max, love this. You did a great job explaining this, and it is true. Pattern recognition is key, and I always have a hard time explaining to others how I know. Practice through repetition is important.
Max, your job description is priceless! Can Pattern Recognition be utilized in Cancer research?
Scientific discoveries, Archeological discoveries?
I am wayyyyy under qualified to answer that but nature is all based around patterns isn’t it?
My knee jerk reaction is absolutely, but again, see credentials comment.
Thanks Max, the chicken sexing example is perfect!
I've been trying to reverse-engineer why certain prompts work and others don't, and your framing of "chunked expertise" makes so much sense. I can tell when something will work before I run it, but I couldn't explain why until this article. The pattern recognition from building the same types of things hundreds of times is so real.
It is…
Knowing you @Jenny Ouyang , I bet you have SOOOO much incredible domain expertise stored in your head.
I guarantee you look at things completely different than 99% of people out there which is YOUR superpower.
P.S. I owe you a DM =)
Appreciate it Max! You are the best :)
"Taste is pattern recognition compressed into instant judgment. Thousands of decisions made so many times they chunked together. Packed down. Automatic. Invisible even to the person running the patterns."
I disagree. IMHO, you are describing intuition, not taste.
Taste is a preference of one kind of thing over another. Intuition is subconscious pattern matching.
I think its contextual…
When people talk about it as it relates to AI, they describe taste as how someone can tell the quality of an output (or at least what I am talking about here).
Not taste as in “would I buy this picture because I think it looks nice in my living room.”
Taste as in “does the new image generation model with this prompt create a quality output.”
I WOULD agree with you in how you described it.
Either way, it’s fun to explore, dig deeper, and have conversations around it because most people give plateau-y, shallow answers and descriptions and I appreciate you reading and commenting!
I think the sommelier is a good example. They don't command premium value because of recognizing quality wines. They get paid for understanding what a particular client would like in a particular context. That's more intuition than taste. I agree intuition it's hard for AIs to compete on that.
Nice topic.
Great point!
Max, love this. You did a great job explaining this, and it is true. Pattern recognition is key, and I always have a hard time explaining to others how I know. Practice through repetition is important.
Thanks Kim - this was a big "aha" moment for me as I was writing and developing this. So glad it resonated!