Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

The introduction to Rajeev Kapur’s new book ‘AI Made Simple’ was written by Chat GPT?🤯

2 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this interview, Nick Hutchison asks Rajeev Kapur why he chose to have ChatGPT write the introduction to his new book, "AI Made Simple." Kapur explains that the decision was intentional and symbolic: using the very tool the book explains to introduce it creates a meta‑experience and showcases the technology in action. He describes the process of prompting ChatGPT for the introduction, treating the AI‑generated text as a direct voice for the book. Throughout the book, Kapur includes additional ChatGPT‑generated examples, each clearly annotated and labeled to show exactly which parts were produced by the model and what prompts were used. This transparency serves both as a teaching tool and as proof of concept for readers, demonstrating how to interact with AI effectively.

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So I want to highlight something from this book that I thought was really interesting. The introduction was written by ChatGPT, which I have not seen before. So tell me why you decided to leverage this tool to actually write the introduction for your book.
Well, you know, a couple of things. Number one is, so the whole book, the book is— people think, oh, it's a book written by ChatGPT. I think somebody made a comment on the original post, whatever, on Book Thinkers. It's not. Yeah. I mean, I figured who better to introduce a book, AI Made Simple, than the tool itself. So I used the tool. It gave me a pretty good answer. I said, okay, let's run with it. Fine, it works. So essentially it's ChatGPT introducing me, right? Introducing the book. And I thought that was pretty cool. You know, throughout the book I used examples of ChatGPT, and you can show people a view, but it's pretty spelled out the parts that are written by ChatGPT. And the parts that are written by ChatGPT are me putting in prompts saying, hey, you know, give me a recipe for XYZ or whatever it might be, right? So, and that's spelled out properly, it's all annotated properly, and it's all— yeah, exactly right. It shows exactly when that part is.