Hi, Christina and Anna Marie! Good subject to take on. My own experiences with ChatGPT for researching Victorian literature and sociology are hilarious, so it's nice to see others pointing out the need for guidance of AI and the need for judgment in understanding its results.
You write: "Whether it’s having the judgement to know what information to really trust and act on, what questions to ask, who to call, or how to design the right experiment, using knowledge and intelligence is the domain of taste."
That leads me to ask: why have you chosen the term "taste" instead of "judgment"? "Taste" is historically associated with aesthetic choices that can be somewhat random. That is the source of the expression "chacun à son goût," which suggests that everybody's taste is different, and thus not the same thing as an expert judgment, where we hope that the expertise is not random even though there may be sharp disagreements along certain fault lines.
I don’t think taste is actually *random* though, and is significantly influenced by experience and interactions with people around you. What we’re saying perhaps is that there is more entanglement and subjectivity in taste and judgement, shaped by experience and the accumulation of tacit knowledge
Hi, Christina and Anna Marie! Good subject to take on. My own experiences with ChatGPT for researching Victorian literature and sociology are hilarious, so it's nice to see others pointing out the need for guidance of AI and the need for judgment in understanding its results.
You write: "Whether it’s having the judgement to know what information to really trust and act on, what questions to ask, who to call, or how to design the right experiment, using knowledge and intelligence is the domain of taste."
That leads me to ask: why have you chosen the term "taste" instead of "judgment"? "Taste" is historically associated with aesthetic choices that can be somewhat random. That is the source of the expression "chacun à son goût," which suggests that everybody's taste is different, and thus not the same thing as an expert judgment, where we hope that the expertise is not random even though there may be sharp disagreements along certain fault lines.
I don’t think taste is actually *random* though, and is significantly influenced by experience and interactions with people around you. What we’re saying perhaps is that there is more entanglement and subjectivity in taste and judgement, shaped by experience and the accumulation of tacit knowledge
Wonderful original thinking
that's it