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🏛 OK, 90 years, maybe. But more than 2300 years! Are you seriously telling me that Aristotle’s teachings can help us build better products? Yep, so break out the togas.
ChatGPT rival "the new Bing" has been going through some early growing pains. It recently added conversation styles with explanatory tooltips.
What’s interesting is how, after only a few days, Bing added "Let’s start over" to the beginning of each tooltip.
And, Bing resets the initial chat message every time you change the conversation style. These texts all include messaging about starting over, which raises the question: why such a big emphasis on a clean slate?
It's strange to be told to start over before you even start.
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Denver-based Dave Chung is one of a handful of UX writers who has worked on multiple products used by over a billion people (Google Play, Android). Nice site with smooooth transitions. 😎
We’ve been trying out the new Bing. Let’s see how it compares to ChatGPT with a generic UX writing task (conversation style set to "more creative"):
Now, the same prompt with ChatGPT:
What’s nice is that they both gave the option to sign in instead. Were this a real scenario, a human writer could step in and craft the final version. But both tools were helpful in generating ideas.
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