It’s always such a good idea to put things on multiple axes. I wonder if chatgpt would’ve had this insight or if it’s an example of something that would require some prompt engineering.
Generative language models have as their core capability the production of the most likely continuation for a text sequence. This seemingly simple skill is remarkably general. Any task that can be specified and executed via text can be framed as text continuation. This encompasses a wide range of cognitive tasks, including tasks that can be resolved over chat or email, for example, or in a web forum.